Epson PhotoRAW on Mac OS 10.4.2

[hamsong]

Hello-

Still loving the R-D1, but I'm unable to open RAW files in Epson's PhotoRAW software.

After installing PhotoRAW on my OS 10.4.2 computers, I still cannot open RAW files shot on the R-D1 (.ERF files). I can open them in Photoshop on my other Mac because I replaced the plug-in with one downloaded from Epson, but neither computer will open RAW files with the Epson RAW software.

At first, I thought that the replacement of the Photoshop plug-in "Camera RAW" was the culprit, taking the file preference, but on my other Mac (some OS version) which doesn't have the new Epson plug-in, the RAW files still cannot be read by Epson PhotoRAW. The files are greyed out when looking at them in the file browser, also.

Has anyone else encountered this?

 

[PaulN]

Epson has two pieces of software: The PhotoRAW plugin and the Photolier software. The PhotoRAW plugin can only used in PhotoShop.

The Photolier software on the other hand, can be used stand alone for batch processing. The catch is that you cannot double click on an .ERF and have it be imported into Photolier. You can only drag folders, not files, into Photolier.

So, to your problem, try loading up Photolier and dragging a folder of ERF files into the column on the left. They should be imported.

If you click on an .ERF file and choose 'Get Info' and change the 'Open With' preferences to be Photolier, the .ERf icon will change. Double clicking the ERF file will indeed open Photolier, but your picture will not show up; you have to drag/drop a folder of .ERF files.. Pretty brain dead if you ask me. This is a two second fix if I had access to the source code. The window should be configured to allow Files AND folders to be dropped onto it, not just folders.

Anyhow, hope this helps clarify.

 

[hamsong]

Thanks much for the help. With the Mac, the software is called PhotoRAW, which I downloaded from Epson's site. The CD that comes with the camera only includes the RAW plug-in for the Mac, which you drop in a plug-in folder, replacing the existing file. What's weird is that I just saw the posting on this forum describing the Japanese location for Photolier, which I downloaded. It's the IDENTICAL software to the PhotoRaw 1.10 from Epson's site.

Your tip with dragging the folder works nicely. When I drag a folder of RAW files onto the PhotoRAW icon on the Mac "dock" (akin to the "Start" menu on WinXP), it opens the folder of files. Conversion of each file is pretty slow, but at least I can edit RAW files with the Epson software, which is actually much better than the RAW converter on Photoshop CS.

Thanks,
Brad

 

[RFNewbie]

there is a new version 1.21 PhotoRaw on the epson europe site. i just downloaded it on my mac powerbook (g4 ppc 1.5ghz) and it installed and works great.
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/Ge...DA2CDF1B97D3211B739D00D33C27CBBB9E7702086E9DB

 

[Ponsoldt]

You might want to try capture one. Its free if you buy a sandisk compact flash card. You can demo it at captureone.com. I think it comes with the M8. Its really fast and somewhat user friendly.

Bill

 

[Joe Mondello]

I *believe* your problem is OSX 10.4.2. Upgrade to 10.4.6 and later for the new RAW support.

I run 10.4.8 and EpsonRAW works fine.

Check here for the RAW support update on its own . . .

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/digitalcamerarawsupportupdate101universal.html