RAW Format support - New File Format Options

[isaacl]

Is there any chance of getting RAW support in the near future?
This is usually the lossless picture format used in digital cameras, or at least the "Professional" ones.

If PMView is gonna be "Pro", shouldn't it support RAW as well? :-)

I think it might have to be different for each model (not sure), but there are only a handful of major digi-cam manufacturers with RAW. (Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Kodak?)
Heck, I'd be willing to pay a little extra for a plugin that does this.

As I understand most RAW image format is easy for programmer, but not necessarily for user.


Isaac

[Peter]

Thanks for the link. I'll look into this. However, there is one big problem with this and it is that PMView's automatic file detection would not work. It would need to rely on that the file extension is ".RAW".

Even with this restriction, any bugs or oddities in the third party code could possibly cause PMView to crash or cause other damage if there is an unrecognized .RAW file on the drive that causes the third party decoder to bail out...

Thanks,