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My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

Debbie — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:33:45 GMT

I've tried changing memory card. My card's been recently formatted. I tried setting quality as RAW only not both RAW + Jpg...but still not getting RAW images in upload. Lightroom settings are fine and able to upload RAW from my Canon G12. I tried clearing setting but no affect. Is a factory reset a possible solution?

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

hsbn — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 05:07:03 GMT

What format do you get then? What is the file extension of the image when you view it in your OS?

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

Debbie — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:49:18 GMT

The extension is JPG. The correct graphic (letter L with jagged stair-steps to its left) for shooting just RAW is on screen. The file size seems okay. I haven't changed any settings for import using Lightroom or Image Capture on my Mac which previously downloaded fine from camera with CR2 extension.

I checked my Lightroom preferences again just to make certain I hadn't inadvertently changed a setting with some shortcut key. Nothing stands out.

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

Debbie — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:28:24 GMT

I just tried using a card reader rather then usb cord from camera but images still appear as JPGs.

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

Debbie — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:35:43 GMT

Tahdah, tahdah and just plain dahhhh!!! I figured it out and if I share the answer I'll sound just plain stupid. But here goes in case someone else has the same problem, or should I say the same misunderstanding. In short, as it turns out I didn't have the quality set on RAW. I had checked, and rechecked the menu>quality window several times and each time misread it until I was just looking in the manual. In it the list of quality options is in a single column. In camera RAW is in a second column next to L with a quarter circle. I thought I had RAW selected. I'd been saying that the letter L was there. The manual, thank goodness, had the single column and said that was a JPG. Here I was reading about battery checks etc and there it was. I had been checking settings a while back and managed to change from RAW to JPG and not figured that I'd not changed back correctly. Whew!!! Call me dumb but I'm stupidly delighted right now ;o) Thanks to all those who tried to help.

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

RobertTheFat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:51:48 GMT

@Debbie wrote:
Tahdah, tahdah and just plain dahhhh!!! I figured it out and if I share the answer I'll sound just plain stupid. But here goes in case someone else has the same problem, or should I say the same misunderstanding. In short, as it turns out I didn't have the quality set on RAW. I had checked, and rechecked the menu>quality window several times and each time misread it until I was just looking in the manual. In it the list of quality options is in a single column. In camera RAW is in a second column next to L with a quarter circle. I thought I had RAW selected. I'd been saying that the letter L was there. The manual, thank goodness, had the single column and said that was a JPG. Here I was reading about battery checks etc and there it was. I had been checking settings a while back and managed to change from RAW to JPG and not figured that I'd not changed back correctly. Whew!!! Call me dumb but I'm stupidly delighted right now ;o) Thanks to all those who tried to help.

OK, Debbie, maybe you'll feel better after I confess to doing something every bit as stupid. Recently my wife and I were driving home from a visit to our daughter's house in Philadelphia, and I used the opportunity to drop off my two 7D's and a couple of lenses at Canon's Jamesburg service facility for their usual cleaning and inspection. (I'm a CPS Gold Member, so it's an included perk.) I knew from previous experience that this would result in a partial clearing of the camera's user settings. Some items, like my name and copyright notice, would be left intact; but others, like my autofocus microadjustment settings, would be wiped. I was ready for that, had long since committed the AFMA's to a spreadsheet, etc.

But alas, I overlooked the fact that the quality setting that you cite above was one of those that would revert to its factory default. And the default is high-resolution JPEG, not RAW. (I always use RAW, and my favorite photo editor, Digital Photo Professional, does a crummy job on JPEGs.) So a week later I blithely walked into a moderately important photo shoot with one of my cameras set to JPEG. Fortunately, the other camera I was using, an almost new 5D Mark III, hadn't been to Jamesburg and was correctly set to RAW. But about two thirds of the photos I took were JPEGs, so I'll have to block out a few hours, sit down with Irfanview or some other editor, and try to fix things up. It doesn't much matter when I get it done, and the world won't come to an end, but it's pretty damned embarrassing.

So there you have it. We all make mistakes.

Re: My Canon Rebel is no longer recording RAW images but set for RAW in manual mode.

ebiggs1 — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:27:05 GMT

"I checked my Lightroom preferences again ..."

Just as a side note, as I also, yes I am, guility of embarrassing miscues. Even after 40 years in the business, so it will likely show up again sometime! Ya gotta laugh at it.

But, anyway, I don't think there is a LR setting to actually change a file type like from RAW to jpg. LR is and braggs about being non-destructive. So you could have saved yourself that step.