I also use Downloader Pro along with BreezeBrowser. I've been using
both for years so it's not an easy transition to Bridge. But I do use
Bridge if I want to convert a group of raw files all using the same as
some previous conversion's settings.
Chuck Norcutt
Sue Pearce wrote:
> I'm using Downloader Pro with great results. It downloads everything you
> throw at it. Will also sync GPS data.
>
> Bill Pearce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:24 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Photoshop Bridge / Camera RAW question
>
>
>> I've never attempted to use Bridge directly on a memory card. I always
>> download to the hard drive first since I sometimes use Bridge and
>> sometimes (usually) use BreezeBrowser. But I just did try Bridge
>> directly on a CF card containing only Canon raw files and noticed no
>> anomalies.
>>
>> I don't know exactly what's happening but the implication is surely that
>> the image that doesn't offer Camera RAW as an option is because it's not
>> a raw file... despite what you think. The proof of the pudding will
>> come in selecting the PhotoShop option. If it's truly a raw file,
>> selecting PhotoShop will force initial opening in Camera RAW since
>> PhotoShop can't deal with a raw file by itself. If it does open
>> directly into PhotoShop the file had to be a JPEG. Of course using some
>> lower lever OS interface to do a complete directory listing on the card
>> showing file types will also show what's going on.
>>
>> One possibility is that you have selected raw mode for output but may
>> have selected some other setting on the camera for selected shots that
>> is incompatible with raw. I'm not familiar with Oly digitals but some
>> Canon digitals will not honor certain combinations of settings. If you
>> put the camera in raw mode and then set it to some scene mode (like
>> portrait or night shooting mode) the camera will shoot only JPEG. It
>> assumes if you're using those modes you probably don't know how to
>> handle a raw file and won't create one.
>>
>> Another possibility might be that you have chosen raw+JPEG mode and then
>> erased an image but only got the raw file. I don't know if that's
>> possible with the E-510 but just another thought for what might be going
>> awry.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> John Hudson wrote:
>>> Here is a question I hope someone can answer because it has fooled me.
>>>
>>> I plug my E510 memory flash card into a card reader which in turn is
>>> USB'd
>>> into my desktop.
>>>
>>> I open up Adobe Bridge and target the drive and folder containing the
>>> memory
>>> card's *.ORF [RAW] files.
>>>
>>> Thumbnail images open up on screen.
>>>
>>> Clicking on an image makes it live and ready for further action.
>>>
>>> Right clicking on the "live" image offers the options of opening the
>>> image
>>> in either Photoshop or Camera RAW.
>>>
>>> Not all images offer the dual option of opening PS or Camera RAW. For
>>> some,
>>> the Camera RAW option is not even displayed leaving PS as the only
>>> option.
>>>
>>> My question..............what circumstance prevails such that the Camera
>>> RAW
>>> option is not an option for a particular image? I have not changed any
>>> exposure options on the camera, in the Bridge settings and I am using the
>>> same compact flash card.
>>>
>>> Having Photoshop and Bridge running simultaneously sucks up memory
>>> unnecessarily and I much prefer to save the *.ORF file as a TIF or JPEG
>>> directly through the Camera RAW option.
>>>
>>> Hopefully there are some PS and Bridge gurus on the list for whom this is
>>> a
>>> simple question to answer !
>>>
>>> John Hudson
>>>
>>>
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