[gdal-dev] RAW formats in gdal?

[Karney, Charles]

> From: Agustin Lobo [alobolistas at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 15:30
> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org

> Are there plans to include some RAW formats from digital cameras
> in gdal?

> At least the one of these RAW formats, the one from foveon Sigma cameras
> (x3f)) seems fully documented:
> http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2005/04/29/167-disclosed-raw-format-sigmafoveon
> http://www.photofo.com/x3f-raw-format/

> Do you know if there is any way to transform this format into tif under
> linux?

I don't know about these specific cameras.  However, I've used dcraw
successfully with other RAW camera images.  It works with Linux and
Windows.  See

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

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