LUMIX RAW COMPATIBELITY?

[TvG]

I'm working with Mac OSX 10.4.11 and the latest version of PhotoMechanic, which always satisfied me in working with Canon D1 camera's.
Now I purchased a Panasonic Lumix FZ18 compact camera for the holiday and noticed that PhotoMechanic doesn't support the .raw format.
I get no thumbnails nor previews. In Photoshop's CameraRaw they do open.

[Kirk Baker]

I'm working with Mac OSX 10.4.11 and the latest version of PhotoMechanic, which always satisfied me in working with Canon D1 camera's.
Now I purchased a Panasonic Lumix FZ18 compact camera for the holiday and noticed that PhotoMechanic doesn't support the .raw format.
I get no thumbnails nor previews. In Photoshop's CameraRaw they do open.

Can you open them in the Preview application?  Do they render?

If you would like to send us a sample or two, we can see if the file format includes an embedded JPEG preview which would make it easy to support that file format.

-Kirk

[TvG]

Hi Kirk,
Just returned from my "no-pc" holiday.
Indeed, no previews or thumbs.
I'll send you some sample pictures.
Can I upload them on an FTP server?
They're about 13Mb uncompressed and 10M as a zip file...

[TvG]

Hi Kirk,
Just finished uploading files DMC_FZ18_SAMPLES_TVG_0001.raw from 1 to 5
Tony

[Kirk Baker]

Tony,

Just finished uploading files DMC_FZ18_SAMPLES_TVG_0001.raw from 1 to 5

The images you uploaded (I only looked at the first one, however) have a thumbnail and a preview.  The thumbnail is 160x120 and the preview is 1920x1440 which is pretty respectable.

I'll try and get your camera supported in Photo Mechanic 4.6.

Thanks for the samples.

-Kirk