DCRawUI

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1 Introduction
2 DCRaw UI
3 Requirements
4 Download
5 History

Introduction

Okay, so I am turning into a photography geek. I just bought this new, very cool, digital camera called FUJI FINEPIX S9500. Not only does it look very cool, it takes very nice crisp sharp saturated pictures. I am very happy with it.

But as with anything, you want to try and push something to the limit. So I thought it would be cool to take some of my pictures in RAW, so that I wouldn't loose a single pixel, or I would at least have the control over it.

So, I installed the software that came with my camera, and it was, to put it nicely, lacking. You had basically no way of changing any settings.

I then looked at a couple of buyware alternatives. They could do a whole bunch of stuff, but unfortunately they did support my FINEPIX's RAW format.

So, I found this really cool program written called dcraw. It's written in ANSI C, and is therefore very portable, so it can exist on virtually any platform. Since I run Windows I got the Windows compiled version from Francisco Montilla's site.

Okay, so I love a command line program as much as the next man, but I guess all this drag and drop and spiffy flying windows has made me a WIMP. So I decided to make a nice looking UI, to batch convert using dcraw.

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DCRaw UI

Utterly uninspired the program is called DCRaw User Interface, but I guess it is descriptive.

The main window of the program looks like this:

Add files by pressing the button, using the menu or dragging the files from the explorer to the window. All files are identified using dcraw. If they are an unknown format you will get a warning and the file will not be added.