CRW files. What can I do with them?

[Sarawak]

Re: CRW files. What can I do with them?

Thank you again. I've had a little play. I have renamed a CRW file as a jpg file. This has worked - sort of. The file will now open in DPP, but only the thumbnail will open. The same applies for CS5/Bridge. All that opens is the thumbnail and when I try to increase the size to something useful the image just pixellates. I then tried renaming the files as CR2 files. This too worked, but only for the thumbnail as before. The full sized image does not seem to want to open in DPP, and I think it must be a problem with DPP rather than the camera/CS5 or Windows. The required information all seems to be there but DPP can't seem to read it.

[NickM]

Re: CRW files. What can I do with them?

DPP does seem to have... "issues." I use version 3.10.2.0 (up to date, I believe) and it can't read CR2 files, it crashes every time. This means I've given up the idea of shooting in RAW, it's just too much hassle.

edit: just updated DPP to 3.13.0 and problem solved. Might be worth trying.

[Robert Scott]

Re: CRW files. What can I do with them?

[QUOTE=NickM; I use version 3.10.2.0 (up to date, I believe) [/QUOTE]

Version 3.10.2.0 dates from August 2011. The current version is 3.13.0 (April 2013).

You can check for and download the latest version at:

http://software.canon-europe.com/

[NickM]

Re: CRW files. What can I do with them?

Thanks Robert. Ironically 3.10.2.0 was the current version when I downloaded it on 1st April at 1655 (bought my 1100D the day before) and it looks like Canon updated their DPP downloads later that day, as 3.13 starts from 1st April too. I must've just downloaded the old version minutes before the new one went up.