I'm on vacation and just picked up a Nikon D700. The laptop I have with me is a powerbook g4 running OS 10.3.9 with Photoshop CS2. Is there anyway to open raw images from the d700 with this set-up? All the software that I've seen requires CS3 and/or an intel mac to open the files. Is there a work around that I can use until I have access to PS3?

Thanks

Try downloading the latest Adobe DNG converter and convert your files to DNG files. CS2 should then be able to open them. The only caveat is that I don't know if the lastest DNG converter supports the D700 yet.

According to John Nack, DNG Converter 4.5 does offer preliminary support for D700 files (read this article).

It does with 4.5 (it is called "preliminary support").

[Francois beat me by one minute]

According to the specs on the Adobe site, 4.5 will only work with intel based machines. My powerbook is a G4 - power PC based. This is where I run into problems.

Try to run the converter on your G4. I'm pretty sure that it ran on my G5, although I've been wrong in the past. Right now, I only have my MacBook Pro so I cannot do the test on PPC Mac.

I've found that the DNG Converter v 4.5 has PPC binaries. I've enclosed a screenshot of the Get Info window and it shows that it can run under Rosetta (PPC emulator for Interl-powered Macs) and it's listed as a universal binaries application.

So it should run on your PowerBook G4.

You're right it does work. I've down loaded it and converted the files. It's slow but it seems to work. Is there any quality difference between the converted dng and a raw image?

DNG is a raw image. It will still open in ACR.

Michael

PS-This is my first post here.

IIRC, Jeff Schewe mentioned that RAW files are - internally - converted to DNG when used in Camera Raw.

Kind of OT, but welcome aboard Michael!