Free digiral photo raw converters

[leftover]

It's not raw vs jpeg debate
http://digital-photography-school.com/raw-vs-jpeg
Everyone has choices

Although I like premium raw converters like Lightroom, SilkyPix etc, but well they're still too expensive for me.
Here some free digital photo raw converters I know, please kindly share yours

- RawTherapee
http://www.rawtherapee.com/
Win and Linux

- Scarab Darkroom
http://www.scarablabs.com/
Beta, Win and soon Mac
the features aren't as many as RawTherapee or Adobe Camera Raw though
but hope they'll improve it in the stable release.

- UFraw
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net
can be used as Gimp plugin

- Stepok Raw Importer
http://www.stepok.net/eng/raw_importer.htm
Honestly I haven't try it out

cheers

[Anupam]

It is to be noted that RawTherapee is in alpha stage presently.

Scarab Darkroom is also in beta.

Software which are in alpha, or beta stages, are not recommended for general usage.

[Ritho]

I had never run across Scarab Darkroom before I will have to look it over.

Though it is not a RAW converter in the same sense as those above, Adobe's free Digital Negative Converter converts almost all raw formats to the somewhat more standardized .DNG format which a lot of image editors support. http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/

I found that dcraw upon which ufraw is built looses the camera white balance data when it converts my pentax raw files. Adobe's tool does not. I just wish that Adobe's tool would output other formats as well. At least jpg and png and maybe tiff. Other wise I have to say that ufraw gives pretty good results. I also found a nice gui for ufraw's command line utility ufraw-batch and it supports splitting up jobs on multi core cpu's. It makes running batch operations much faster and simpler. http://www.neotos.de/de/content/ufraw-batch-gui