I'm new here, I have an 590IS with 1.01B firmware.
Maybe, only I'm who have this problem, but my RAW files are 1/4 size of the original 8Mpixels pictures. (half X and half Y -> 2Mpixel )
I tried to change settings in RAW menu, but I can't find any option related to RAW resolution.
The correct CHDK version is on the SD card. ( unpacked a590-101b-0.9.8-779-full.zip )
My RAW files are 10341600 Bytes size. I think, for 8M it would be 4x size of this, somewhere in the 40MB range.
The newest IrfanView can decode CRW files, it reports 1649x1236 and 24 bits per pixel and shows a 2Mpixel size picture.
The newest UFRaw reports 3298x2472 for the CRW file, but can't show the picture in 1:1 size, 1:2 (50%) is the maximum. The zoom button simply doesn't work over 50% in UFRaw for me.
The jpg files at the same time has 8Mp (3264 x 2448) resolution.
For detailed macros, unfortunatelly the 8M jpg's are better (in some aspect) than 2M raw
Hope, somebody can help me ! (sorry for my bad english)
Anyway the the solution exist or not, thank you for the tremendous work !!!