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Built-in obsolescence

May 5, 2008
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I recently bought the new Canon 450D - great camera, by the way - to augment our digital camera arsenal for an upcoming wedding shoot. The general approach we take with photography is to stick with Raw mode wherever possible as it gives us a bit more flexibility in the adjustment stage, particularly around the white balance, without as much damage to the image compared to using Jpeg.

The Raw image format is specific to each particular model of camera due to the nature of the image CCD layout, camera settings, etc. Photoshop eases the support for Raw by using a plug-in. Adobe keep updating the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in with the details of the latest and greatest cameras:

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

They added support for the EOS 450D to Camera Raw 4, specifically version 4.4.

So where is the built-in obsolescence?

Camera Raw 4 is only supported by Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Lightroom. It is not compartible with Photoshop CS2, which is the version I have, and Adobe do not add camera support to older versions of the Camera Raw plug-in.

So I now have a choice:

Use Jpeg instead of RAW format when taking photos.
Use Canon's Digital Photo Professional tool, supplied with the camera, to convert the RAW images into Jpeg.
Spend £700 upgrading my CS2 suite to CS3.

Hmmm ... some choice!