Rawnalyze

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The current program version is 2.9.9.9, available for downloading from 2009-06-24.

Changes with 2.9.9.9:

• Supporting the Canon SX1 IS native raw files.

Changes with 2.9.9.8:

• Supporting the Canon 500D/T1i/Kiss X3 native raw files.
• Supporting the Nikon D500 native raw files.
• Supporting the Olympus E-3, E-30, E-410, E-420, E-450, E-510, E-520, E-620 and E-P1 native raw files.
• The camera maker name is displayed now with Olympus, Sony, Nikon CP8800 and Phase One as well.
• The green channel separation is now apparent in the selection statistics in channel mode.

Changes with 2.9.9.7:

• Supporting the Pentax K20D native DNG files.
• Clipping level corrected for the Canon 50D with ISO 400.
• WB coefficients corrected for DNG files and Nikon native raw files.
• New shortcuts to display only selected channel(s) by assigning WB coefficients 0 to the other channels (the same can be achieved through the white balance dialog):
  • Shift-1: display red only
  • Shift-2: display both green channels only
  • Shift-3: display blue only
  • Shift-4: display the first green channel only
  • Shift-5: display the second green channel only

Changes with 2.9.9.6:

• Supporting the Sinar Hy6-65 lossy DNG files.
• Some small issues.

Changes with 2.9.9.5:

• Supporting the Nikon D60 native raw files.
• Quoted file name accepted in command line; this is useful if someone sets up a function in Windows for some file types, so that Rawnalyze gets started per right click on the file name and function selection.
• Many small issues.

Change with 2.9.9.4 (the Christmas edition for Sony A700 and A900 users):

• Supporting the compressed raw files (CRAW) of the Sony A700 and A900.

Changes with 2.9.9.3, the Christmas 2008 edition:

• Supporting the Nikon D3X native raw files.
• Supporting the Nikon D2Xs native raw files.
• Supporting the Nikon D700 native raw files in 14bit uncompressed format as well.
• Supporting the Leaf Aptus 22 native raw files.
• Supporting the Canon G10 native raw files, now really.
• Extracting the As Shot white balance coefficients, if available, and displaying them on the histogram panel.
  This WB setting can be activated by Control-0 (Control-null).
• The white balance dialog got expanded with the As Shot white balance coefficients.
• Adjusting some saturation levels of the Canon 5D Mark II.

Change with 2.9.9.2:

• Setting the white balance causes the green coefficients becoming zero with certain raw files, like Nikon D300. This error was new in version 2.9.9.1.
  
  Bad job! Sorry for the trouble.

Changes with 2.9.9.1:

• Supporting the Canon G10 native raw files.
• Version number appears in the window title
• Several minor corrections and enhancements.

Changes with 2.9.9.0:

• Supporting the Canon 5D Mark II native raw files.
• Increasing/decreasing the font size of some texts can be achieved by Alter and Plus or Minus. I am sorry for the confusion this may cause, but the Control and Plus or Minus was a bad decision.
• Some minor corrections and enhancements.

Changes with 2.9.8.9:

• Text display problems in the dialog: depending on the minotor size and settings, it may occur that text like selection information is displayed with too small letters, or the text does not fit into the field and gets cut off.
  Users now can adjust the font size by entering Control and Plus respectively Control and Minus (no matter if Plus or Minus is selected on the main section or on the numerical pad).

Changes with 2.9.8.8:

• Supporting the Canon 1000D native raw files.
• Fine histogram over the selected area can be displayed.
• Some errors have been removed; for example the displayed location of the selection was not adjusted to the orientation.

Changes with 2.9.8.7:

• The statistics relating to the selected area now shows the dynamic range position of the average pixel value of the channel, calculated from the saturation point.

Changes with 2.9.8.6:

• Supporting the Canon 50D native raw files.
• Supporting the Nikon D90 native raw files.
• Fine adjustment of the intensity in units of 1/36 EV by Ctrl+Right and Ctrl+Left while the focus is on the slider.

Changes with 2.9.8.5:

• Supporting the Canon 1DMarkIIN native raw files.
• Adding two more steps to the intensity adjustments; thus the adjustment allows for 1/6 EV steps over the entire range.

Changes with 2.9.8.4:

• Supporting the Canon 450D native raw files with the name Digital X2.

Changes with 2.9.8.3:

• Supporting the Nikon D700 native raw files (filename extention NEF).
  Due to the lack of respective raw file samples not all combinations of bit depth, compressions and sizes have been tested. In case of any problem pls upload the raw file and notify .

Changes with 2.9.8.2:

• Supporting the Pentax *istD native raw files (filename extention PEF).

Changes with 2.9.8.1:

• Supporting the Kodak DCR Pro native raw files, DCS Pro and DCS Pro 14N (filename extention DCR).
• Supporting the Nikon D40 native raw files (filename extention NEF).
• The saturation level of Canon 30D has been specified in further detail depending on ISO.
• Numerous small enhancements and corrections.

Changes with 2.9.7.0:

• Supporting the Pentax K10D and K100D native raw files (filename extention PEF).
• The saturation level of Canon 30D was assumed to be 4095. That was incorrect; the conseqnence was, that raw clipping has never been indicated by Rawnalyze. Now it is changed to 3398.
• ISO values between full stops are now displayed correctly with Nikon native raw files.
• Some tiny enhancements and corrections.

Changes with 2.9.6.0:

• Correcting the error, which caused the message Erros in the JPEG compression data: excess tile/strip data appear with Canon CR2 files.

  The program copy in error was awailable for downloading from 2008-05-07 afternoon to 2008-05-08 morning, Pacific DST.

  I apologize for the trouble to those, who downloaded the program in this time frame.

Changes with 2.9.5.0:

• Supporting the Nikon D50 camera's native raw file,
• Supporting the Pentax K200D camera's DNG file.

Changes with 2.9.4.0:

• Supporting the Canon 450D camera's native raw file,
• some small corrections and enhancements.

Changes with 2.9.3.0:

• Explicite white balance setting in a subdialog, started by pressing Alt-Ctrl-W. Up to five WB settings can be created, saved and activated . Saving and recalling is possible through keyboard shortcuts, like in the former versions, saving by Ctrl-Shift-1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5), activating by Ctrl-1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5).
• Initial black point with Pentax K10 corrected.

Changes with 2.9.2.0:

• The black point and/or white point can be increased/descreased by 500 through the key combination Alt-Control and an arrow key, analogous to the other adjustments with Ctrl or Ctrl-Shift combined with an arrow key (this is useful in fine histogram mode),
• the edit boxes for black point and white point have been increased to prevent truncation,
• Nikon raw files updated by Nikon Capture violate some TIFF rules and have been rejected by Rawnalyze; now these files are accepted.

Changes with 2.9.1.0:

• Support of the Nikon D40X camera is added.

Changes with 2.9.0.0:

• Diverse changes to the fine histogram.
• The black level correction algorythm has been changed. This effects only Canon cameras at the moment.
• The standard deviation of the RGB values in the selection stats is displayed now with one decimal after the point.
• Finally, an About box with with proper version number can be tickled out by right-clicking on the title bar (the top of the window).

Changes with 2.8.9.0:

• Fine/zoomed histogram can be selected by a checkbox. A block of 512 pixel values is displayed in the 512 column wide histogram; consequently every pixel value has its own representation.

  The range of the pixel value block starts at the current black point; if the black point is changed, the histogram gets recalculated.

  The hight of the columns represent the number of pixels swith the respective value relative to all pixels of that color in the displayed range (on a logarythmic scale, as described in the user's guide). As the range is shifted by changing the black point, the number of pixels of any color within the range changes, therefor the shape of the histogram changes by shifting it.

• Selection in exposure display mode was not possible when zoomed it. Now it is possible.
• The handling of black levels in Sony A700 images has been changed.

Changes with 2.8.8.0:

• Command line parameters are now accepted. This means, that the program can be started from Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the file name and selecting the appropriate action; however, this has to be established in Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types.

  The first parameter (following the program name itself) is the name of the raw file to process, the second parameter is the processiong option: a slash or hyphen followed by the letter i for color image display, e for exposure display, n for channel related image display, b for black and white image display or h for histogram display.

  Example:
  "H:\RawProc\Release\Rawnalyze.exe" %1 -i

  Windows Explorer replaces %1 with the file name and starts the program for color image display.

• In addition to the reduced size display mode, up to ten times zooming is available through hitting the "+" (plus) key repeatedly. Zooming out occurs by hitting the "-" (minus) key. The key combination Alt+Ctrl+0 resets the display to normal mode.

  Selection is possible at all zooming states, but the selection gets erased when changing the zooming.

• The handling of white clipping has been redesigned, though most users won't notice it.
• The font of the text displays has been changed, because the text sometimes overflowed at certain display settings. Hopefully the new font (Times New Roman, instead of Microsoft Sans Serif) will not be too small with some other settings.

The manual will be updated soon.

Anyone using an older version of the program should download this one, which has new features and in which some errors of the previous version have been corrected.
The version of the downloaded program can be verified in Windows Explorer, by right-clicking on the program name, selecting Properties and then Version.

Compressed or uncompressed DNG files of most cameras are accepted. If anyone encounters an error with the processing of a DNG file, please upload that file to your site or to yousendit.com and send to a description of the problem with a link to the file causing the problem.

Native raw files are accepted from following cameras:

Canon 20D	Nikon D80
Canon 30D	Nikon D90
Canon 40D	Nikon D100
Canon 50D	Nikon D200
Canon 350D	Nikon D2X, D2Xs
Canon 400D	Nikon D300 (except some losslessly compressed files)
Canon 450D	Nikon D3 (except some losslessly compressed files)
Canon 500D	Nikon D700 (except some losslessly compressed files)
Canon 1000D	Nikon D3X (except some losslessly compressed files)
Canon 5D	Nikon Coolpix 8800
Canon 5D Mark II	Olympus E-1
Canon 1D Mark II	Olympus E-3
Canon 1D Mark IIN	Olympus E-30
Canon 1D Mark III	Olympus E-300
Canon 1Ds Mark II	Olympus E-400
Canon 1Ds Mark III	Olympus E-410
Canon G9	Olympus E-420
Canon G10	Olympus E-450
Canon SX1 IS	Olympus E-500
Leaf Aptus 22	Olympus E-510
Leica R8 DMR	Olympus E-520
Leica M8	Olympus E-620
Mamiya ZD	Olympus E-P1
Nikon D40X	Sony A700
Nikon D50	Sony A900
Nikon D60
Nikon D70, D70s

More cameras' native raw files will be supported in the future.

Anyway, Rawnalyze is a computer program for the support of detailed analysis of raw images created by digital cameras.

Requirements, Conditions

• Computer and software requirements:
  • Windows 98 and above. It is not tested on Vista; difficulties are not expected, but they can never be excluded,
  • computers with "least significant byte first" architecture (also known as "little endian" or "Intel architecture", as opposed to "Motorola architecture").
• Images accepted by Rawnalyze:
  • only raw images (no JPEG, no PSD, no BMP, no GIF, etc.),
  • raw images of unsupported formats, or with unsupported compression have to be converted in "Digital Negative" format; this can be done by Adobe's DNG Converter. Information on this program is at Adobe's Digital Negative site. The DNG converter can be downloaded here, free of charge,
  • DNG files can be uncompressed or uncompressed,
  • the sensor has to be Bayer type, rectangular layout color filter array with three colors (like all Canon, Nikon, etc.). Neither Foevon, nor Sony's RGBE (four color sensor), nor staggered color filter arrays are supported.
    Furthermore, intermediate formats, like Canon's sRGB and Kodak's small raw versions (originally Bayer mosaiced data, but now de-mosaiced) are not supported either.

Caveats

• The histogram range of some cameras and/or ISO settings may not be correct. The histogram is relative to the possible range of pixel values, which depends not only on the bit depth but on the camera model and on the ISO as well. For example the Canon 40D's maximum pixel values (the saturation levels) depend on the actual ISO. This is accounted for with those cameras, for which the relevant data is available.
• The Dust Delete Data feature of some Canon cameras is not supported yet.
• The sRaw images of some Canon cameras are not accepted.

Downloading the program

Installation

A shortcut can be created by right-clicking on the program file in Windows Explorer. This shortcut can be moved to the desktop, to the task bar or to a folder of the Start Menu (the location of the latter depends on the Windows version).
When right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting Properties, a dialog appears. In that dialog one can specify the folder, which contains raw files to be analyzed; opening a raw file will be easier this way.

Note, that the program does not create any Windows registry records, nor does it carry out any communications whatsoever, like registering or reporting the usage.

Uninstallation

Starting Rawnalyze

User's Guide

Detailed description of the features with screen captures are in the Rawnalyze User's Guide. In order to reduce the downloading, the guide is subdivided into five HTML files; however, there is a complete version, Rawnalyze User's Guide All. This takes longer downloading, but it can be saved as an HTML file with the images (select "Webpage complete" in Internet Explorer, when saving it), or as a single file in MHTM format.

If the guide is stored in the same folder, where the program file is kept, then it will be displayed when clicking on the Help button in the Rawnalyze dialog. If neither the HTML nor the MHTM version is stored in that folder with the name RawnalyzeGuideAll.htm respectively RawnalyzeGuideAll.mht, then the Help function displays the guide from the Rawnalyze Internet site.

Current spin-off programs

• The raw image of most cameras is somewhat larger than the in-camera JPEG or what the raw processors create from the raw file. The reason for the discrepancy is in most cases that the camera manufacturers have some guidelines regarding the sizing. For example Canon images created from the raw files are in 4:3 proportion (width:height), and the number of pixels in each dimension is divisible by 8.

  Therefor some (or some dozen) rows and or columns of pixels not shown in the result is normal. However, the Canon SX1 IS is something special in this regard: more than 300 columns of pixels are cut off this way from the left edge. The sensor captures a much larger image than specified.

  For those, who don't mind the unusual image dimension proportions but want to utilize the entire captured image can take advantage of the program SX1_Enlarge. This program creates a copy of the CR2 file while changing the image size in the metadata. DPP will honor this change and create an image of 3960x2748 pixels, instead of 3648x2736 pixels - a gain of 0.9 megapixels.

  The program runs in Windows as a command line program, or in Mac under Crossover, etc.

  The program expects one or two comman line parameters: the name of the original raw file (CR2), and optionally the name of the file to create. If the latter is not specified, then the characters _3960x2748 will be inserted between the original file name and the periode preceding CR2.

  Downloading: click here and save the program in a suitable folder.
  
  

• Certain version(s) of Nikon Capture NX, at least version 1.3.0 and 2.0.0 are creating an erroneous file when updating a NEF. Some programs don't have problem with processing a file with that particular error, but others reject the file.

  Capture NX Version 2.0.0 adds another, though less important error: the DateTime field is overlong, and the content is garbled from the seconds. This is the date and time of processing by Capture X; the date and time of shooting the image is intact.

  The Windows-only program CNXCORR1 corrects the error by updating the file (the garbled seconds get replaced by "00").
  It is a command line application started from a DOS windows, with the file name as the only parameter (including path if necessary). CNXCORR1 issues messages relating the file status; if these particular errors do not occur in the specified file, a message indicates this, and no update takes place.

  Downloading: click here and save the program in a suitable folder.

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