Ultimate image control: RAW shooting arrives for the PowerShot SX1 IS

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Ultimate image control: RAW shooting arrives for the PowerShot SX1 IS
United Kingdom / Republic of Ireland, 18 February 2009: Canon announces an exciting add-on for its celebrated PowerShot SX1 IS digital compact camera: firmware that allows users to capture images in RAW format.

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[John Parry]

Do you shoot much in RAW? I've read up on it, but the conclusions seem to be that good RAW shooting carries cost overheads. Photoshop needs a plug-in, which of course is extra, and the Pentax software that came with my K200D didn't get too good a write-up. That's probably because the Pentax package couldn't be expected to have the same capabilities as Photoshop.

There doesn't seem to be much point in putting it into the Pentax package to export it into Photoshop as a JPG to process, it seemed more sensible to me just to use the highest resolution JPG settings on the camera and work directly in Photoshop with those. Any thoughts?

[Steven Gourlay]

Hi John

This is an RSS feed pulled through from the manufacturers site, i personally shoot in RAW for all of my shots but im a Canon man. I think most people on here shoot in raw, some prefer the highest quality jpeg as it allows increase burst mode on the camera in some cases. There are a couple of Pentax users on here you might want to speak to.