Update on trying to understand my camera's file language:
I found a new definition: "Color bitmap image format created by Silicon Graphics (SGI); generic format used for saving RGB color images on SGI workstations; recognized by various image viewing programs."
When I went to the SGI web site, I couldn't come up with a search that they recognized for .RGB or even for Photo files, so I wrote to their sales department asking if they had software that utilized .RGB files to their fullest potential. I await their reply.
According to www.pcpitstop.com this
http://www.irfanview.com/ is the most popular software to view .RGB files. Is anyone familiar with it? How does it compare with Adobe Photoshop? From Wikipedia: "IrfanView /ˈɪərfænvjuː/ is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. The software was first released in 1996. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration."
Obviously none of this will matter at the photo-taking end of this business, but might possibly affect how the pictures may appear/be edited after they are taken.
And then of course there is an added glitch if you are using pictures for anything other than online viewing: What you see on the computer is not what your printer (or your printer's press) is going to produce. I have to make photos look completely over-exposed with Photoshop if I hope to get anything like the original photo to print out on our HP Color LaserJet CP3525x... MR
