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Ok, I'll try to explain myself.

First of all, I must apologize for the harsh tone, the creators of this wonderful CRW converter really did fantastic job, keep on the good work! (I know that wouldnt help me grow back in your eyes, but anyways :)

I must tell the whole story: about two months ago my S50 was stolen and I quickly examined the next version in the line of PowerShots: S60 it was cool, I have bought it and since then I have made about two CDs of RAW images. When I came home and tried to process them,... you know... CRW files wouldnt open with anything except scary Canon Raw converter. "More than a month of waisted time picturing things which I cannot see! :(", - I thought.

First idea was to compare the old type CRW file and new one: both cameras have the same CCD matrix so the difference would only be in headers, but... the different was whole sequence of bytes, meaning it is either compressed, or not in plain text/unicode, or both...

About three weeks of browsing internet and reading forums, including this one, where I have heard from Chris (another one million of apologizes!) that the new CRW Plugin supporting the new camera, will be released very soon after Canon sent Adobe specifications for the new crw format. That somewhy Canon doesnt want to send it, keeping it in secret from everybody :)

As I was looking on one and a half gigs of useless CRW files, I made another decision to join the Canon Developers team (I found on their page, that anyone can join and then all specifications and sources will be opened to anyone who wants to program something which uses their cameras or printers; is that right? has anyone checked that?), they replied ok, now wait for 5 days so we will create you the account etc. 5 days and then I possibly will make a converter S60->S50.

5 days... I opened wine and drank a bit, about a bottle :) and then finally the idea came, as usually from the opposite side, simple and effective.

In a moment I tried it and everything worked! Photoshop was opening the new S60 CRW files like in good old days with S50. So you see, naturally came another idea that while I was suffering from this unability to do anything with the pictures (friends all the time asking where the hell are their photos), Chris, as a developer 100% knew about it and somewhy wouldnt tell this to me and couple of thousand people affected by this new Canon's CRW format.

And then, you see, on the wings of success in antigravity of wine I wrote this in the forum on the principle first doing and then thinking (remember, I have already apologized :)

Finally!! tonight is gonna be a night of creation!

Almost forgot, here is the recipy:
1. load some Hex Editor
2. load the "camera raw.8bl" file
3. find "PowerShot S45" string.
4. change "45"->"60"

after this both S50 and S60 files will be openable.