Canon T1i

Well, I'm not whining "Are we there yet?", just if anyone knows approximately when we might expect an update. I've never bought a brand-new model before, hence my question. Are the updates released at set times during the year, or as they come available?

I'm hot to buy the new Canon T1i too but won't until it's supported by Camera Raw because I don't like workarounds.

Response to original question so this thread can be closed. Please download the latest ACR plug-in whoch contains full support for the Canon T1i.

Thanks!

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Everytime I buy the latest camera on the market there are always another one just behind the next corner with even more functions, better pictures. At the moment I have a Canon Ixus  latest at the moment - but I am thinking of buying a Canon D500 or a Nikon D90 or what it's names are :-) HD Video is really interesting! A bit larger cameras than I'm used to - but I guess I have to give it a try! :-)

So .. i've been reading a lot of complaining etc about this whole raw thing, and some people seem to be saying that they can open their raw files once they update CS4 with the latest upgrade.... or do we have to wait for the next update release which presumably will be sometime in the near future as it has been a few months since the last one? I just want to be able to open my raw files from Bridge into the PS raw editor window where I can play with all my sliders and tweak my photo to exactly where I want it....

I just purchased the T1i; I finally upgraded from my Canon Rebel XT... I just didn't expect the CRW format to change from camera to camera within the same Rebel line of products. I wonder what “new and improved” features my camera RAW format has over the XT format??? I foolishly assumed the format would be the same. I was using Lightroom 1 but am now ready to upgrade to 2. The fact that Adobe cannot support my cameras file format makes the decision for me not to spend the money simple.

As a company they can decide if and when they will support a different RAW file format, and we as the consumers can decide if and when we purchase their products. If Adobe thought for one minute that they would increase sales of their products and make buckets of dollars you would see a change in the release cycle. It is just common business sense. I will apparently need to wait until Adobe feels that they can make money by adding support for my “New” camera to their product.

I own a Canon Rebel T1i and also Photoshop CS4.  My last auto upload contain the plug-in for Camera RAW ... and it shows up in CS4 as a plug-in.

Woops!  I can't use it as it doesn't recognize the file?

Yes, I have read the many posts and all you seem to say is "someday".

If I fully understand what ACR does it does not seem that Adobe could use a pre-production model for their profiling. It must be a production model. If you read all of the pre-release reviews the reviewers are careful to say that they were reviewing a pre-production model and performance could change. I wouldn't expect Canon to have real production models until a few weeks before release.

I am a software developer. Even making small changes to an application as complex as ACR is a long process. Would you prefer to have a fully tested application or would you rather have buggy one, only to find out what the bugs are after you delete the original raw files? I don't delete my raw files but I will bet that some people do.

On the other hand, it doesn't seem like Adobe needs the physical camera to update ACR. It would seem that all they would need are a lot of raw files from a production camera. These could be supplied by Canon directly without sending a camera body.

Just my two cents

Steven

Just to throw in my 2c again....

The camera has been in the hands of reviewers for months, I'd be amazed if Canon didn't let Adobe have a model at the same time so that they could work on the Camera Raw update. It's not much of an excuse to say that the update hasn't been created because the camera has only just been released...Does an Adobe staff member have to physically buy every camera when it's released and not a moment earlier?

Back on topic...

I'm archiving the photo's as 16bit Tiffs which offers the same bit-depth as the RAW files, allowing exposure tweaking further down the line in Photoshop if required. If I had something really precious I'd just save the RAW file but, so far, I haven't needed to do much tweaking...the camera takes great photos.

I have stumbled on to a work-around until Camera RAW is updated by Adobe.

1.  Open the image in Canon's Digitial Photo Pro.

2   In DPP, go to the edit screen.

3.  Under "Tools", choose "transfer to Photoshop".

4.  In CS4, Photoshop opens the image as a .tif file.

You could edit in DPP and then transfer, or do all your editing in Photoshop.

Good luck!

I had this same problem (unfortunately, didn't research prior to my purchase).  I ended up converting the files to jpeg through my camera software. Then you can open the saved jpeg images in Adobe Bridge and do a CTR R on Open and you at least get the RAW editor.  Not the same as having them in RAW but a much faster way to edit using Photoshop until a fix is done.