Bibble is Back and Faster Than Ever!

For those of you that are not familiar with Bibble it's a PC/Windows and Macintosh program developed as an alternative to Nikon Capture for the D1. After the author perfected it as a NEF file converter those of us with Canon D30's asked him to make it work the same with the Canon RAW (.crw) files created by our cameras. It has been working with the .crw files since December of last year but rather slowly because it depended on the Canon drivers supplied with the software that came with the camera. I just received the following message from Eric along with the announcement of the release of the latest version of Bibble:

    "Sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I've spent the last 3 months trying to find a way to work around using the slow canon .crw drivers, and I've succeeded!

    Now you can finally tap amazing power and flexibility that is in your Canon D30 Raw files in a reasonable amount of time.

    With this version of Bibble you will now be able to load D30 .crw files 2-3 times faster(depending on options) than you can with any other piece of software...including Canon's.

    Additionally, since the files are now 100% being processed by Bibble, you will also get better color through Bibble's custom profile, and great detail with bibbles raw interpolator, not to mention full 16 bit processing.

    Additionally, after making adjustments to your images, and saving them as 16 bit tiff's or jpegs, all the EXIF shooting info is preserved in the file for future reference. Bibble can also process .crw files by themselves (without the .thm files), but then you don't get EXIF info.

    Of course all of this also functions with all of Bibble's other features including its lightning fast browser, image processing tools (Curves, Levels, etc), as well as a direct Photoshop "File:open" plugin.

    This version also fixes some niggling bugs that crept into the last version. As always, I hope you are finding Bibble useful."

Bibble Version 2.5 New Features:
  • Complete support for D30 including CRW's/Jpegs/Exif
  • Dramatic 3X-2x Speed increase when decoding CRW files.
  • Enhanced D30 Raw color using custom profile.
  • Canon's drivers no longer needed for CRW files.
  • D30 Files preserve EXIF info when saved.
Note that the Mac version does not currently support the D30, as Canon has not provided drivers. As the PC version no longer depends on the Canon drivers, I will be adding D30 support for the Mac soon.

Bibble can always be found at its new home: http://www.bibblelabs.com