RAW for SX10?

[kdw75]

Does anyone know or speculate weather or not the SX10 will get RAW format at some point?

Keith

[Hasitha]

Well SX10 can't but they have given row format option to SX1 which is expensive than sx10.

[originalstarlite]

Does anyone know or speculate weather or not the SX10 will get RAW format at some point?

Keith

This will start a FIRESTORM. :razz:

RAW is not all its cranked up to be (for normal Joes like me). My first digital P&S Canon, had the RAW potential. When I found out how large the original files were, that they had to be converted upon download to be used, and that the resulting TIF, was also enormous, well... the difference had better be worth it.

At the Grand Canyon, I took my usual jpeg's and some RAW's because I heard that the lossless editing was the big feature. When all was said and done, I could not see a difference, kept the jpeg's, and never used the feature again.

That is why the SX10 without the feature is fine with me.

[kdw75]

I thought it was odd though since my out dated low end Powershot S-30 had RAW format. :)

[Jon]

Canon appears to have decided, rightly or wrongly, that RAW isn't a selling point in the PowerShot line until you get to cameras that border on the DSLR line (G10 and SX1) in overall performance and stopped offering it. It's not unlikely that there'll eventually be a CHDK hack for the SX10 giving you a RAW variation, but I don't expect to see a Canon RAW for it; if they did, it'd be a fairly easy port for them to make to several other PowerShots with the same sensor. Personally, I shoot RAW on all my DSLRs and would welcome it on the PowerShot line.

[c2thew]

raw on the powershot line has marginal gains with the time and effort put into post processing.

but at least canon is giving up some. =]

i can't wait till chdk is ported to the digic IV processors. motion detection is a blast to use.