MacBibble 4.4 review

Bibble is designed to allow you gain the most quality from your digital SLR through the manipulation of?raw CCD files from the camera.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Bibble Buy Now Price: $75.00 Updated: 18 Oct 2005

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Bibble is designed to allow you gain the most quality from your digital SLR through the manipulation of?raw CCD files from the camera. Raw files are the digital equivalent of a film negative.
They record up to 12 bits of information per pixel and store the data in an uncompressed form without any additional color corrections, sharpening or compression.
By providing access to this virgin data, Bibble allows photographers to exercise maximum creative control over their final images, while simultaneously delivering the maximum quality possible. Conversely, Jpegs should be thought of as digital prints. Jpegs only records 8 bits of data per image, and are heavily processed in camera. Much like prints delivered by a photo lab, Jpegs have someone else's interpretation of what the color is supposed to look like.
Additionally, while smaller in size, Jpegs have been compressed which introduces artifacts and reduces sharpening. Tiff files do not have the compression problems of Jpegs, but can be very large and slow to use. Even with all their size, they still only contain 8 Bits of data per channel, though they do not have the compression issues of Jpegs. With Bibble, you can quickly and easily browse through your raw files, edit and adjust them, and then save them in final form as either Jpegs or Tiffs.
Additionally, Bibble offers many powerful tools that allow you to adjust the images to your satisfaction.

What's New:
New Camera support for:
Canon 5D, 1D Mark II N (1d2n)
Konica/Minolta A200, 5D
Pentax *ist DL
Fill Light (Shadow recovery)
Display and export of EXIF GPS position info.
Enhanced and sharper output.
Tethered shooting for all supported Canons on Macintosh.


Supported Cameras
 
Nikon
D1, D1H D1X, D100, D2H, D100 D70 D2X CoolPix 8800 8700 8400 D2X D2Hs D70s D50
Canon
EOS: D30, D60, 10D, 300D/Rebel, 10D, 20D, 1D, 1DM2,  1DS 1DSM2
Powershot: G2, G3, G5, G6, S40, S45, S50 S60 S70, Pro1
Olympus
E10, E20, C5050, C5060, 8080, E1, E300 EVolt
Kodak
14n, 14nx, DCS Pron, DCS Proc
Pentax
*IST, *IST DS
Minolta
Dimage A1, A2, Maxxum 7D
Epson
R-D1
Fuji
S2 Pro, S7

Requirements:
OSX 3.0 or higher recommended
G4 processor 1.0Ghz, G5 processor recommended
512 Megs of free RAM, 768+ recommended for large (>10Mp ) images or extensive batch processing (768 minimum for 1DS2/D2X/S2)
1 Gig or more of free hard drive space strongly recommended
Photoshop 7/8/cs for Photoshop plugin (Pro)
Photoshop Elements 2.0 for Elements plug-in (Lite).