Took one look at the supplied ZoomBrowser and I went searching for alternatives.

Reviews of some RAW image processors (Breezebrowser, YarcPlus, Capture One and Camera Raw) can be found on Luminous Landscape web site. Not sure if all of them are compatible with the G5.

I use a program called Breeze Browser (which is G5 compatible, not Mac compatible - Windows only) to convert image from my Canon 10D. It also doubles as an image library browser, EXIF viewer, contact sheet creator, web gallery creator and probably more I haven't discovered yet.

I'm hoping that PhotoShop 8 - whenever that comes out! - will be fully RAW capable from the beginning, and support better editing of 16 bit images.

As far as format, I would recommend 16-bit Tiff, as this is lossless, and the 16-bit colourspace gives you finer control when editing curves and levels in PhotoShop. You will need to convert the image to 8-bit in PhotoShop before you can do some of the other editing. For a suggested workflow see the article An Image Processing Workflow on Luminous Landscapes.

Hope this helps.

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Mark

Mark