Godfrey DiGiorgi replied to my post as follows:
My original post:
"My SO just bought the new Canon digital Rebel (X something or other?) and Photoshop CS can't open the raw files. She tells me that Adobe may not be supporting CS 1 anymore and she will probably have to upgrade to CS 2 to handle the new raw files. Is Adobe in fact dropping support for CS I already?"
Godfrey's reply:
"Photoshop CS2 has additional features that the latest Camera Raw 3.1 plug-in is dependent upon to provide the Advanced features, so yes: you must upgrade to CS2 to use the latest software. Adobe Technical Support continues to handle CS questions and support, thousands of people with well established workflow have no need to upgrade to CS2. New cameras, however, need the support of new software, older cameras do not.
You just bought a new camera, doesn't it make sense that you'd have to buy software written to handle it?"
I didn't buy a new camera, my SO did. I'm more than happy shooting slide film with my MZ-S and reading e-mail on my 4 yr old Windows 98 AMD Athlon computer. I'm currently receiving more digital annoyance than I can stand just watching her struggle with all this crap.
Computer upgrades, software upgrades, camera upgrades and hours and hours fiddling around and you digital people think you're saving money?
Digital photography sucks. There, I said it. Let the $#!tstorm begin.
Thank you very much to everyone for their replies. I'll forward the workaround to her then I think I'll order another sixty rolls of chrome.
Tom Reese
