Weird 20D problem...

I met a guy today that had a 20D. He was excited to meet me as he was just shooting his first photos with it and asked for tips. He told me that he is a retired pro that has recently been robbed of all of his old equipment. Anyway he got the 20D from insurance money. I showed him the histogram and told him that he really should play in RAW. Well the problem is that his camera does not have RAW mode at all. I compared it to my camera which will shoot RAW in every resolution. This was the wierdest thing I have ever seen. I asked where he got it from and if it was a Grey Market camera. He told me that he was not sure where it came from as his insurance company picked it up for him. I told him I would ask here what is going on and let him know...Dean

Dean,

The Raw Image option is not made available when the camera's command dial is set to any of the AUTO modes. It can only be accessed if you set the camera to one of the Creative (P,Tv,Av,M) modes.

Also, a large number of options in the camera menu are not available in the AUTO modes.

I would suspect that the camera was in an Auto mode when you tried to change the image quality.

Cal CPS432

um.....

I assume you have a 20D to compare to? So I'd assume you know how to get into RAW mode on the 20D, either way...

That makes no sense... I'd be really interested to know what the explanation for this is.


edit:
hmm, ^ that may very well be it, I hadn't considered that, though now that I think about it, I've noticed no RAW option when I shoot in those modes

I bet Cal is right!
Plus, you can only shoot Raw in one resolution on any camera... and that is the native resolution. That's why it's called RAW. The image is not resized.

LOL, that's probably it. I shoot only in M mode, so I would not have known that...Dean

Yes Dean. Cal is 100% correct.

As drisley said, RAW comes in only one size. What you're seeing is the camera's settings for shooting RAW + JPEG, where the JPEG will be at one of the available alternate sizes and compressions.