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Craig Salmond
 

Canon and RAW


I own a Canon 20D with a vertical battery grip (BG-E2). About a week ago, I photographed a wedding using the 20D with the vertical grip. I shoot in RAW and have had great success working with this medium. I just noticed a problem with so many of my pictures and that is when I used the shutter button on teh vertical grip the camera took the picture but even though the exif data says that it's a canon raw file, but the file size is less than a third the other 'real' CR2 files are. Also they don't open up in Photoshop's RAW editor, so I'm sure that they are not RAW files. Am I missing something, like a camera setting, or firmware, whatever? Thanks.


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January 02, 2006

 

Christopher A. Vedros
  Craig,
How are you transferring the images to your computer? If you are using a program to transfer the pictures, is it possible that the program is rotating your vertical images, and saving them?

I always use a card reader to transfer my images, then I do any rotating necessary in my image editor.

Chris


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January 02, 2006

 

Craig Salmond
  I have a card reader too and it's how I transfer my images. But I'm pretty sure that it's not the program. I deactivated the auto rotate feature in the camera and they weren't rotated anyway. I'm going to try reactivating the auto rotate feature and see if that helps anything. Anybody else ever had this problem?


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January 03, 2006

 

Dan Smith
  Yes....when I copied photos from my card I did not read how/where they would copy...i had it set to convert to jpg from the last batch.....hope this helps


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January 03, 2006

 
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