Digital BW, The Print

In terms of quality of transformation, all methods are identical.

This is because the third party tools like Bibble and BreezeBrowser use 
the Canon SDK to do the actual conversion.

The advantage of the third party tools is higher speed compared to the 
Canon tools, although Canon have begun to strike back with a new tool 
called the Raw File Converter. 



In article <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJEEBKPKAA.darkroom@...>, 
darkroom@... (Austin Franklin) wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> > The other advantage with the Cannon
> > cameras is the ability to shoot in the raw mode. Once developed you
> > end up with a 17.8 mb, 16 bit, tiff file.
> 
> What do you use to process the Bayer pattern CCD data?
> 
> For those that don't know, when you get raw data from a Bayer patterned 
> CCD
> camera, you typically get only one of the three color values per "data
> point" (it's not really a pixel in the sense of a typical pixel...which 
> will
> have all three colors, for a color pixel that is)...and that needs to be
> processed to resolve the color information from individual color data to
> full pixel color values, which will then contain all three colors.  That
> typically happens in the camera, but some people prefer using external 
> (to
> the camera) programs, as they feel these programs give them better 
> results.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin