DSLR RAW IMAGES Continued

[Dennis G]

I address this to Leon and Humayun and those members who have a Canon Camera.

Using Digital Photo Pro supplied with the camera I managed to open the file that the 28 Jan Moon pics were saved to and discovered there were two images saved for each taken as the instructions indicated, but the first obvious feature was the absence of the extension CR2. as per instruction.
E.g. Listing. 0001. JPG and 0001_1.JPG
Next line 0002.JPG and 0002_1.JPG
And so on… Which is Raw?
This proved that I had used Raw + JPG when recording the moon, but left me confused so I set the camera to RAW and took 4 daylight shots as a test. Their extension is .JPG and I could not detect any difference to a single JPG setting, producing more confusion. WHY???
If I am reading the instruction book correctly, I should not be able to see RAW images in the LSD on the camera. I could see all 4. This begs the Question,Is the camera producing them as RAW?
In both the moon shots and the 4 RAW test shots the camera was on AV Not M , does this have any bearing on the subject?
Would appreciate your comments and suggestions ‘
Dennis

[DavidU]

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/infobank/image_compression/how_to_set_raw_jpeg.do

[tlgerdes]

Hi Dennis,

This still doesnt mean you are saving in RAW, it means you have closed and opened DPP again and it is saving new files into the old directory with the _1 suffix. This is Canons way of not overwriting files it already sees.

Raw files will say .cr2 on the end.

Do you use the EOS Utility to capture images? or just to transfer them from the camera?

[Dennis G]

Tigerdes many thanks for your reply. Can you take me further into it. I can understand what you wrote re Canon saving a second image but why when I took Raw it didn't show the CR number? And I could see the image in the camera?

[tlgerdes]

Hi Dennis,

I dont think you have taken any RAW pictures.

When you say you can see the image on the camera, what are you looking at?

I will look at my 1000d settings tonight and post some screenshots of both the camera settings and EOS utility settings.

Trev

[leon]

Trevor if you need to take Raws, or want to take raws, you must select that in your Image recording Quality.

Digital Photo Professional that comes with your camera, is a pretty ordinary program, I tend not to use it at all.

However your raws should appear, in the program .

Also, I have a Canon 5 D and do not know what functions you have at your disposal with the 1000 D.

Leon

[Octane]

Eek, Leon, Digital Photo Professional is far from an ordinary program. : )

It is extremely powerful in its simplicity -- rather than wasting time with endless sliders, you have the core adjustment tools necessary to edit an image.

Granted, it's useless for astrophotography. Though, I (pre)process all my weddings/terrestrial stuff in Digital Photo Professional.

Dennis, if you click the Menu button on the back of the camera, and scroll through to Image Quality, it will show you either "RAW" or "RAW + ?" or just "?" where ? means L, M, or S. If it's not set to RAW, press the SET button, and cycle through until RAW (or RAW + ?) is highlighted and hit SET. That should now set the quality to RAW.

Hope this helps. If it doesn't, can you describe exactly, step-by-step, what you're doing on your camera so that we can assist you better?

H