'extra' lossless compression for camera raw images

"Alex Monro" <nospamdeleteabusenews@argaty.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Sachin Garg wrote:
>
>> things tend to take more time and effort than I
>> estimate.
>
> Looks like you're learning the first rule of software engineering!

:-)

> Rawzor looks interesting - the RAW files from my Fuji S3 are around 25
> MB, and I suspect there's a lot of redundancy.

Rawzor easily gets 40% - 60% size reductions on Fuji raw images (totally
lossless).

> When the Linux version
> is ready, I'll probably give it a try.

I have code working on linux (fedora8) but it has troubles on other linux
flavours (fedora9, suse etc). I have only fedora8, but thats what I got back
from the few people who offered help to test support for various raw
formats. I suspect its due to shared object version incompatibilities,
something I still need to figure out (but yes, its in pipeline).

> I think that for a tool like this, which potentially could control my
> access to my images [...]

Yep, a format should not lead to limitations in file-access-options.

> Could do with a little more detail on the website, e.g. list of
> supported formats / cameras.

Ah yes, will add that. Thanks.

Sachin Garg [India]
www.sachingarg.com | www.imagecompression.info

Alex Monro <nospamdeleteabusenews@argaty.org.uk> wrote:

[Rawzor]
> I think that for a tool like this, which potentially could control my
> access to my images, I'd really like to see as open source.

At least the decoding part!

-Wolfgang

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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> Alex Monro <nospamdeleteabusenews@argaty.org.uk> wrote:
>
> [Rawzor]
>> I think that for a tool like this, which potentially could control my
>> access to my images, I'd really like to see as open source.
>
> At least the decoding part!

For now, I have put up an SDK which can be used to support .rwz files in
applciations.

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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> Alex Monro <nospamdeleteabusenews@argaty.org.uk> wrote:
>
> [Rawzor]
>> I think that for a tool like this, which potentially could control my
>> access to my images, I'd really like to see as open source.
>
> At least the decoding part!

For now, I have put up an SDK which can be used to support .rwz files in
applications.