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The Kodak DCS 460 is not among the formats officially supported by the embedded RAW converter in Photoshop CS – but it works. Just click on the thumbnail of the DCS 460 RAW file in the file browser, and up pops the RAW converter.
[It is, AFAIK, the /only/ way to convert these files in this day and age. Kodak’s RAW own converter, that came with the camera, won’t run on Win/XP (and would require you to keep an antique running Win/95 around).]
With the camera, Kodak supplied a "calibration file" which was individual to each camera (mine is named "460-2899.CAL", where 460-2899 is the S/N of my camera. Kodak’s RAW converter will not even start unless this file is present – and the camera documentation makes a big point of saying that without this calibration file, conversion from RAW to TIFF will be poor.
Still, the RAW converter in PS CS seems to do a pretty decent job of converting these files to TIFF /without/ the CAL file being present.
Still, I keep thinking that maybe it would do an even better job /with/ the calibration file. There is, however, no mention of this in the Adobe documentation (hardly surprising – since the DCS 460 RAW format is not even on the list of supported formats).
Q1: Is the RAW converter is PS CS capable of making use of the "calibration" file for a Kodak DCS 460 camera?
If – yes, then:
Q2: Where do I place the "calibration" file so that PS CS sees it?
I’ve tried to put it in the Plug-Ins/Import-Export folder. However, I haven’t noticed any change (i.e. the pictures converted after I installed the CAL look just like they did when I converted them without a CAL file there).
In "Advanced" mode, the PS CS RAW converter has a tab called "Calibrate". It has seven sliders. They were all at zero before I installed the calibration-file – and they’re still at zero after (I assumed that installing the calibration-file, these would change to reflect whatever info there was in the calibration-file).
Q3: Is there a way to check that the PS CS RAW converter actually read the CAL file?
[Unfortunately, there seem to be no documentation about the RAW converter supplied with PS CS, so I don’t really know what the "Calibrate" tab is supposed to do. Any pointers to more documentation will be appreciated.]
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– gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no – http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ] ============================================================ ============ «To live outside the law, you must be honest.» (Bob Dylan)
[It is, AFAIK, the /only/ way to convert these files in this day and age. Kodak’s RAW own converter, that came with the camera, won’t run on Win/XP (and would require you to keep an antique running Win/95 around).]
With the camera, Kodak supplied a "calibration file" which was individual to each camera (mine is named "460-2899.CAL", where 460-2899 is the S/N of my camera. Kodak’s RAW converter will not even start unless this file is present – and the camera documentation makes a big point of saying that without this calibration file, conversion from RAW to TIFF will be poor.
Still, the RAW converter in PS CS seems to do a pretty decent job of converting these files to TIFF /without/ the CAL file being present.
Still, I keep thinking that maybe it would do an even better job /with/ the calibration file. There is, however, no mention of this in the Adobe documentation (hardly surprising – since the DCS 460 RAW format is not even on the list of supported formats).
Q1: Is the RAW converter is PS CS capable of making use of the "calibration" file for a Kodak DCS 460 camera?
If – yes, then:
Q2: Where do I place the "calibration" file so that PS CS sees it?
I’ve tried to put it in the Plug-Ins/Import-Export folder. However, I haven’t noticed any change (i.e. the pictures converted after I installed the CAL look just like they did when I converted them without a CAL file there).
In "Advanced" mode, the PS CS RAW converter has a tab called "Calibrate". It has seven sliders. They were all at zero before I installed the calibration-file – and they’re still at zero after (I assumed that installing the calibration-file, these would change to reflect whatever info there was in the calibration-file).
Q3: Is there a way to check that the PS CS RAW converter actually read the CAL file?
[Unfortunately, there seem to be no documentation about the RAW converter supplied with PS CS, so I don’t really know what the "Calibrate" tab is supposed to do. Any pointers to more documentation will be appreciated.]
—
– gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no – http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ] ============================================================ ============ «To live outside the law, you must be honest.» (Bob Dylan)
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