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Risk of closed proprietary "RAW" digital imaging formats

Tuesday Apr 10, 2007

After I published the entry on building the dcraw "RAW" image format converter for OpenSolaris I found an interesting post on the photography forums regarding Pentax PEF files:
Default Opening Pentax *ist DS RAW .PEF files in Windows 98? Pentax say on the box that the Windows system requirement is Windows ME/2000/XP and they're not kidding... However, the software with the *ist DS (including the software for processing RAW images) requires some methods in Share32.dll which simply don't exist in Win98...[Read More]

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