Canon didn't give us a .CRW converter?? A couple of questio

[texas-longhorns]

I have spent about an hour reading through threads, and I am amazed at what I am understanding. Canon does not provide a reasonable way to convert .CRW files into .RAW or others. They give a version of Photoshop but have not created a utility for it to read .CRWs. I find this amazing.

Now a couple of questions...

1. It seems that the best thing to convert files and view files is Breeze. Please comment.

2. If I have to move from .CRW, what file format keeps all of the detail and depth?

3. I was excited about the Bibble Photoshop plug-in, but Bibble and the plug-in keep crashing my XP machine. Are others having this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[JasonM]

> Canon does not provide a reasonable way to convert .CRW files into .RAW or others.
Now a couple of questions...

One of the included Cannon utilities is "Raw Image Converter." This software will convert .crw (raw) files into TIFs.

> 2. If I have to move from .CRW, what file format keeps all of the detail and depth?

Converting the file into a TIF with 16 bits per color will retain all of the original information, but will make for a ~ 22 meg file. The 8 bit/color is enough if you are not going to do touchup work on the image.