Anyone figure out how to get Powershot G2 to work again after update to 1.5

Question

All my raw files from my Powershot G2 are now "Unsupported" since the update. Has anyone figured out how to update the program to allow support for that camera again? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

You can get the old hack for the Canon Powershot G2 RAW support to work again on 10.4.8 and Aperture 1.5, and you do NOT need to revert back to the old 10.4.7 IO Frameworks file. The solution is to download the new 2006-01 RAW Camera Support update from Apple's web site. Here is the link version for PPC machines (which is what I have):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/digitalcamerarawsupportupdateppc.html
There his also a Universal version on Apples site (but I have not tried this version):
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/digitalcamerarawsupportupdateuniversal.ht ml
After you install this update, it will place a new copy of the RAW.plist file in the usual place:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ImageIO.fram ework/Versions/Current/Resources/Raw.plist
Edit this file with the old hack, making sure to add the "<!-- 10.4.0 -->" to the 1st line and save it back. A few notes on this:
1) I'm not sure whether the "<!-- 10.4.0 -->" is needed, but similar items appear in all other cameras now, so no harm in adding it.
2) To place the editted version back in the library, I had to 1st move the old RAW.plist file to the trash, then copied the editted version to the library. I then restarted to allow me to delete the version in the trash (otherwise the system thinks it is still in use).
3) To be safe, I also did a repair permisssions (which did repair the permissions of the new RAW.plist file).
After this, I was able to open Powershot G2 RAW files in Aperture and PReview (have not tried iPhoto, but is shoudl also work there).
Here is the hacked code for the Canon G2 camera.
<key>Canon-PowerShot G2</key> <!-- 10.4.0 -->
<dict>
<key>blackReplace</key> <true/>
<key>black</key> <integer>32</integer>
<key>max</key> <integer>1023</integer>
<key>white</key> <integer>1023</integer>
<key>premul0</key> <real>1.90</real> <key>premul1</key> <real>1.00</real> <key>premul2</key> <real>1.22</real>
<key>m1</key>
<array>
<real>1.0507</real> <real>-0.4281</real> <real>-0.0161</real>
<real>-0.5540</real> <real>1.2938</real> <real>0.2909</real>
<real>-0.1205</real> <real>0.1844</real> <real>0.8335</real>
</array>
<key>m2</key>
<array>
<real>0.9087</real> <real>-0.2693</real> <real>-0.1049</real>
<real>-0.6715</real> <real>1.4382</real> <real>0.2537</real>
<real>-0.2291</real> <real>0.2819</real> <real>0.7790</real>
</array>
<key>mc</key> <real>0.83355</real>
<key>otrc</key>
<array>
<real>0.450</real> <real>0.090</real> <real>1.467</real> <real>0.260</real> <real>1.842</real> <real>0.652</real> <real>1.040</real> <real>0.538</real>
</array>
</dict>