Friday, December 31, 2004

Using a Minolta Digital Camera with Photoshop?

http://www.dalibor.cz/minolta/index.htm

The RAW support in photoshop is supplied by a plug-in. The current version does not support the Dimage A200, and the workings of the plugin itself are well short of the standards you would expect from Adobe. The latest BETA version does support the A200, but again it's functional rather than inspiring.

Enter 'Dalibor Jelinek' - this guy has written his own photoshop plug-in for RAW support of Minolta camera's and it is a big improvement over the Adobe version. Go to his website above and download the demo version for free. Again his curent release does not support the A200, but the BETA version (2.2) does... I have been using it for a few days now. He is very responsive to questions, and there is an entire Forum to provide support and advanced assistance.

He also produces a windows extension called Dalifer which allows full access to the EXIF and NoteMaker data from within explorer, alloows windows to display thumbnails of MRW files, even showing where the focus indicator was when the picture was taken.

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