Fri
Nov
16
2007
dcraw 8.80
Dave reports:
I noticed that the Nikon D3 needs a slight crop.
Please rebuild dcraw v8.80 to get this change.
Wed
Nov
07
2007
dcraw 8.79 released: supports Nikon D300
Dave has released dcraw v8.79, supporting the Nikon D300. Go to the Downloads section to get this version builds.
Mon
Oct
03
2005
dcraw performed in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride, a Tim Burton’s animation movie, brought prosumer DSLR use to the stop-motion movie animation field. Canon’s 1D mkII was chosen as the best camera in terms of image quality, (shooting raw of course) and Dave Coffin’s dcraw was the tool chosen for developing the digital negatives in a very innovative workflow. Original article by Robin Rowe on Editors Guild Magazine
Sun
Sep
25
2005
dcraw milestone: 7.70
Dave reports that:
Dcraw v7.70 is released. I removed the edge-sensing code from ahd_interpolate(), greatly speeding up dcraw with no perceptible loss of image quality.
I’ve also added Bilateral Filtering as an option. This is good for noisy, high-ISO images — it smooths out noise while preserving high-contrast edges. Low-contrast edges can get erased with the noise, unfortunately.
BF was brought to my attention by Paul Lee
Thu
Mar
10
2005
dcraw 7.0
Dave reports:
After four months of work, dcraw 7.00 is available for download (source, binaries).
It’s a major rewrite:
Not only is Adobe DNG now supported, the entire codepath has been redesigned for it. Adobe’s XYZ->CAM matrices allow color science to replace black magic, whether decoding DNG or the original raw files.
The Foveon-related code has been completely rewritten to give realistic colors under all light sources.
The license has changed. The new Foveon code is under the GPL license, so authors of closed-source applications may need to pay me to use it. The rest is under my old free-for-all license. See dcraw.c for details.
My future plans are:
Adding support for SMaL-based thin cameras. Currently these cameras are completely useless without Windows.
Improving camera white balance support, first for Canon, then Nikon, and maybe others.
Sat
Mar
05
2005
Nikon D2X and D2Hs White Balance encryption addressed
Dave says:
A firestorm of controversy recently erupted when Thomas Knoll of Adobe accused Nikon of encrypting the white balance data in the D2X and D2Hs cameras, thus preventing Adobe from fully supporting these cameras.
I cracked this encryption on April 15, and updated dcraw.c and parse.c on April 17. So dcraw -w now works correctly with all Nikon cameras.
This is not a new problem. Phase One, Sony, Foveon, and Canon all apply some form of encryption to their raw files. Dcraw decodes them all — you can easily find decryption code by searching for the ^ operator.
Compression is not encryption. Phase One and Sony do encryption only. Kodak does compression only. Canon, Nikon, and Foveon compress the image data and encrypt some of the metadata.
dcraw 8.80 · Nov 16, 05:07 pm
Dave reports:
I noticed that the Nikon D3 needs a slight crop.
Please rebuild dcraw v8.80 to get this change.
— Francisco J Montilla
dcraw 8.79 released: supports Nikon D300 · Nov 7, 02:19 pm
Dave has released dcraw v8.79, supporting the Nikon D300. Go to the Downloads section to get this version builds.
— Francisco J Montilla
Comment [5]
dcraw performed in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride · Oct 3, 12:24 pm
Corpse Bride, a Tim Burton’s animation movie, brought prosumer DSLR use to the stop-motion movie animation field. Canon’s 1D mkII was chosen as the best camera in terms of image quality, (shooting raw of course) and Dave Coffin’s dcraw was the tool chosen for developing the digital negatives in a very innovative workflow. Original article by Robin Rowe on Editors Guild Magazine
— Francisco J Montilla
dcraw milestone: 7.70 · Sep 25, 12:55 pm
Dave reports that:
Dcraw v7.70 is released. I removed the edge-sensing code from ahd_interpolate(), greatly speeding up dcraw with no perceptible loss of image quality.
I’ve also added Bilateral Filtering as an option. This is good for noisy, high-ISO images — it smooths out noise while preserving high-contrast edges. Low-contrast edges can get erased with the noise, unfortunately.
BF was brought to my attention by Paul Lee
— Francisco J Montilla
dcraw 7.0 · Mar 10, 01:17 pm
Dave reports:
After four months of work, dcraw 7.00 is available for download (source, binaries).
It’s a major rewrite:
Not only is Adobe DNG now supported, the entire codepath has been redesigned for it. Adobe’s XYZ->CAM matrices allow color science to replace black magic, whether decoding DNG or the original raw files.
The Foveon-related code has been completely rewritten to give realistic colors under all light sources.
The license has changed. The new Foveon code is under the GPL license, so authors of closed-source applications may need to pay me to use it. The rest is under my old free-for-all license. See dcraw.c for details.
My future plans are:
Adding support for SMaL-based thin cameras. Currently these cameras are completely useless without Windows.
Improving camera white balance support, first for Canon, then Nikon, and maybe others.
— Francisco J Montilla
