Vmaxdad:
I am sorry you downloaded the software only to be disappointed that your
camera was not supported!
FYI, we updated the download information on Microsoft.com yesterday to make
it more explicit that only Canon and Nikon cameras are supported in this
release.
I have hopes that we may be able to support additional camera brands and
models in the future; however, this is very hard to do because there is not
yet any "standard" way to do this--we have to do custom development for each
camera manufacturer's image processing libraries, and these libraries have to
be updated and tested whenever any new camera model is released. (Not to
mention the legal requirements to license said libraries.)
However, our recently announced RAW image codec architecture for Windows
Longhorn should make it much easier for software developers in the future to
support different RAW file types though use of a common Windows API. In the
future, RAW software like the Powertoy would "just work" whenever you got a
new camera, provided that the camera maker supplied an updated image codec
for the new model.
We hope that by taking a leadership position on this issue and working with
both camera vendors and software developers, we can reducing the industry
pain and simplify the digital photography workflow for customers....
Best,
Gary Voth, Rich Media Group
Microsoft Corp.
