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Panasonic TZ-200

Richard Allen
I've just purchased a Panasonic TZ-200 as a point n shoot camera to keep with me at all times.

Capture One can't read the RW2 files from this camera but the Capture One website for Supported Cameras [ shows that the Panasonic TZ100 is supported.

Is there a simple way to fool Capture One the think that the TZ-200 is the TZ-100 as I can't imagine there's much difference (if any) between the resulting images from either camera?

Thank you in advance.
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  • Eric Valk
    I have found in OSX that RW2 files have two places where the camera name is spelled out in clear text. Just open the text files with something like programmers file editor or text editor, and serach for "TZ200" .

    Changing those two locations to a different string results in fooling CaptureOne.

    You want to avoid changing the length and postion of anything inside the file, so change only necessary characters "2"-->"1"
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  • Richard Allen
    Eric,
    thank you for the information.

    I'm using Windows 10 and the RW2 files from this camera don't have any text file with them, all I can see is the RW2 file.

    How did you locate this text file, or any file that a text editor might be able to open?

    Regards,
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  • Eric Valk
    [quote="Richard Allen" wrote:
    Eric,
    thank you for the information.

    I'm using Windows 10 and the RW2 files from this camera don't have any text file with them, all I can see is the RW2 file.

    How did you locate this text file, or any file that a text editor might be able to open?

    Regards,

    Hi Rick
    I didn't mean to say that there was an accompanying text file - there isn't one.

    You need a tool called a Hex editor, which will allow you to see and edit the digital information inside the .RW2 file. This information is shown as hexadecimal coded information, and where posssible, as text.

    Much of what is in the RW2 file is unintelligible to me and you - but some of it is not - including the part where it identifies the camera.

    The digital information which identifies the camera is coded in ASCII, and is shown as text by the hex editor. e.g. "Panasonic" "DC-G9"

    I'm afraid I did give you some bad information - Text Wrangler is not a suitable tool for this purpose. And "Programmers File Editor" is two decades old, there are now better tools.

    I am currently using a free tool called "wxHexEditor", I didn't expect to find a windows version, but I see there is also a free version available for Windows, updated 3 months ago. This likely your best choice.

    I have also paid for "010 Editor" which is really quite good and available on multiple platforms. It is reasonably priced, but it is way more than needed for this job and is more complicated to learn and setup.

    There is also HxD, a free tool which is at least Windows 7 compatible.

    Using any of these tools (but below I'm referring to "wxHexEditor"), open the RW2 file. You will initially see the start of the file, which is gibberish. Then use the Edit>Find command to search for "Pana" or even "Panasonic". It should find at least two such text strings inside the RW2 file, both of them just before a text string with the Camera Name e.g. "DC-G9".

    Once you have changed the Camera Name, save the RW2 file, and try opening it with Capture One.

    I've done this a for a few different cameras, and I haven't found it to be difficult or risky unless you change the length of the Camera Name string, but that isn't necessary in this case.

    Actually I've found that just changing the first occurence of the Camera Name string is sufficient to make it work.

    To be safe, do make sure to backup the RW2 files before doing this.
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  • Richard Allen
    Eric,
    I tried the aoolications you mention and managed to change the corresponding references within.

    Unfortunately Capture One (or any other application) could then open them.

    I'm using Adobe Digital Negative Converter to convert to .DNG format which Capture One can read.

    I'll have to wait until Phase One include (if ever) the Panasonic in the compatible camera list.

    At least I can open the images now even if wasn't in the way I wanted.

    I really appreciate your help.

    Regards,
    Richard
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  • Eric Valk
    I think Phase One will react within a couple of months.
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