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Sorry for the late reply - and thanks for the link! I extracted the JPEG preview using ERawP which worked fine - but what do you mean about the quality? Just that JPEG is already compressed?

Thank you, Pšenda, that explains it nicely. It was driving me nuts. Is it possible to export this preview from within Affinity Photo somehow?

Hi there! I recently started using RAW rather then JPEG for my photos and I'm somewhat confused. In both, Windows and macOS, when previewing CR2 files in the preview tools that come with the OS, the images load and for a moment they look (sometimes drastically) different than when loaded in Affinity Photo. It takes maybe a second or so and the images seem to be processed, after which they look like they do in Affinity Photo. On macOS, with XnViewMP, it always displays that "unprocessed" version, it seems. Can someone explain what's happening here?