Description:

A GIMP plug-in which reads and processes raw images from most digital
cameras. The conversion is done by the dcraw software and so all
cameras supported by dcraw are also supported by this plug-in.

Raw images are the data directly read from the CCD of the camera,
without in-camera processing, without lossy JPEG compression, and in
36 or 48 bits color depth (TIFF has 24 bits). Problem of the raw
images is that they are in proprietary, camera-specific formats as
they are exactly what the CCD has captured, and the CCDs on differnt
cameras are very different. It also contains info about the camera
settings.

In contrary to the original GIMP plug-in of dcraw this one is much
more comfortable, especially because of the life preview image but
also due to more options.