1. I previously wrote about a nasty bug in iOS 8 that prevented PhotoRaw from accessing any images that were shot as raw+JPEG.

    Apple haven't fixed the bug - indeed, they have shown no interest at all in either fixing it or providing a workaround - but I'm pleased to say that as of version 4.2.0 of PhotoRaw, this shouldn't be a problem anymore. I've rewritten a large portion of PhotoRaw's image importing code to use an entirely different mechanism for importing under iOS 8. Of course, that mechanism doesn't exist under iOS 7 and earlier, so PhotoRaw now has a separate code path for iOS 8.

    The version of PhotoRaw with the fix is on the App Store now, and a fixed version of PhotoRaw Lite will also be there as soon as Apple approve it.
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  2. While Adobe's DNK SDK has been a great asset for the imaging world, allowing all sorts of useful open source software, including my CornerFix and dcpTool packages, as written it only supports Windows and OS X. This is for good reason - Adobe is a commercial organization, and the vast majority of software for commercial use is one of either Windows or OS X.  So there wasn't much point in Adobe spending a lot of time and energy getting the SDK running on Linux.

    Fortunately, there are folks that are willing to take on challenges like this. "Cellstorm" has documented how to get dcpTool up and running on Linux in an article: DNG tools in Linux. This ported version can be used with Elle Stone's dcraw-float package. The dcraw-float package has a number of improvement relative to the base version of dcraw, including the ability to use DNG camera profiles.
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  3. So you can stop emailing me :)

    The versions of AccuRaw and AccuRaw Monochrome on the App Store as of this morning (V2.2.8) have support for the Canon 7D Mark II, Canon SX60 HS, Canon G7 X and Fuji X100T.

    PhotoRaw will also have support for all those cameras in a few days; this time round PhotoRaw is lagging by a few days because of some user interface tweaks to better support the iPhone 6 and 6+.


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  4. Erik Kaffehr just posted a short comparative mini-review of four raw developers - AccuRaw, Lightroom, Capture One and RawTherapee.

    Erik's focus in the mini-review was primarily on demosaicing performance using an image from a Phase One P45 medium format back, but there's also some discussion of color rendering.

    Given that the P45 is a Phase One product, you'd expect Phase One's Capture One product to sweep the field, but not so. The review is well worth the read if you're interested in how various raw converters behave with "difficult" images.

    You can read the review here: Four raw converters, handling demosaic errors

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