Goughy

This exchange showed up on Twitter this morning.

No DAM yet.

Are you sure you're looking in the right place? Open "App Store" on your Mac and select "Updates" from the menu at the top. After a bit of searching the store, it should show Affinity Photo, Version 1.5.1 as the latest available update. I updated from 1.4.3 to 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 without any trouble at all and without charge.

It might be possible to recover the deleted files from iCloud if they were lost in the last month. See http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-recover-deleted-icloud-data/ or search online for other instructions.

Hey - mentioned in dispatches! :) Although I haven't gone over the metadata with a fine-tooth comb yet, it looks like a fantastic improvement. A big thumbs-up - thanks!

No problem, Andy. Good to hear they should make it eventually. Thanks for the team's hard work. I'm looking forward to the release.

Just checked Beta 4 and there is no change from Beta 3 in the metadata handling (as far as I can see) although "- Fixed failure to write metadata." appears in the list of Improvements & Fixes. Maybe it didn't make it into this version or this refers to a different fix?

Just checked Beta 4 and there is no change from Beta 3 in the metadata handling (as far as I can see) although "- Fixed failure to write metadata." appears in the list of Improvements & Fixes. Maybe it didn't make it into this version or this refers to a different fix?

Thanks Andy. I might have missed some items and some differences might be expected. I only tested one file from one camera so it is not exhaustive. I used ExifTool to print out the metadata for the .ORF and .JPG files and compared the alphabetized items in a spreadsheet. There was some manual comparison involved so I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. Anyway, it's something that should probably be looked at before release.

I have been looking at the EXIF/metadata handling in 1.5 Beta 3 and found a few issues. I know it is still early days in the beta cycle and I hope these will be rectified before release. I used a .ORF raw file from an Olympus Stylus 1 as my starting point and simply imported the file and exported it as a highest-grade .JPG file. Here are my findings so far 1 Display .ORF - Some items are missing in the Summary display although they are present in the file “Copyright” “Description” “Author” is also missing but this is present in the raw file under the “Creator” and "Artist" tags so I can understand it being absent. .JPG - Same comments as for the .ORF file above. In addition other items are now missing: “Date shot” “Exp. prog” “Metering” Furthermore, some items have been changed “Aperture” was 2.8 in the .ORF now shows 2/1 for the .JPG “Exp. bias” in the .ORF was 0 now shows 0/1 for the .JPG 2 Metadata Some metadata items seem to have been stripped when converting from raw to .JPG. These include: “Artist“ “By-line“ “Caption-Abstract“ “CircleOfConfusion“ “CodedCharacterSet“ “Compression“ “Contrast“ “Copyright“ “CopyrightNotice“ “CreateDate“ “Creator“ “DateTimeOriginal” “Description“ “DigitalZoomRatio“ “ExifVersion“ “ExposureProgram“ “Flash“ “FocalLengthIn35mmFormat” “GainControl“ “GPSAltitude“ “GPSAltitudeRef“ “GPSImgDirection“ “GPSImgDirectionRef“ “GPSMapDatum“ “GPSSpeed“ “GPSSpeedRef“ “GPSTrack“ “GPSTrackRef“ “GPSVersionID“ “Keywords“ “LightSource“ “MaxApertureValue” “ModifyDate“ “Orientation“ “PrintIMVersion” “Rights“ “Sharpness“ “Subject“ “WhiteBalance“ In addition, some items seem to have been altered: “Aperture” was 2.8 in .ORF is now 2 in .JPG “FNumber” was 2.8 in .ORF is now 2 in .JPG “FocalLength” was 9.8 mm in .ORF is now 9.0 mm in .JPG “FocalLength35efl” was 9.8 mm (35 mm equivalent: 46.0 mm) in .ORF is now 9.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 42.1 mm) in .JPG “HyperfocalDistance” was 5.36 m in .ORF is now 6.31 m .JPG “LightValue” was 10.6 in .ORF is now 9.6 in .JPG Some of these are probably the result of the algorithm Affinity Photo uses to convert to JPG but I would not have expected items such as "Aperture" to change and in fact Lightroom does not change them when exporting the same file to JPG. I guess that metadata handling is not a high priority at this point in the beta cycle and some of the missing items might not seem to be that important. On the other hand, it should not be difficult to just pass values through from the raw to the processed file. When items such as creation time/date are missing it causes havoc when trying to organize the images in a DAM.

Does not seem to occur when opening JPGs.

Also seems to occur if I open a JPG and export it without doing any editing at all.

In order to check if the "Creation Date" bug had been fixed yet (see topic/13320 ) I edited several .ORF files and made some very minor changes. Saved the edits as full size JPGs and all the previous EXIF data from the raw file (e.g. GPS data, Creation Date, Caption etc. etc.) is missing from the JPG file. Perhaps I have missed a switch somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

I can confirm this. I use an Olympus Stylus 1s camera. Open a .ORF file in the new Beta. Image is dark initially. Clicking "Exposure" off and on again in the right panel restores the image to its proper setting. Exiting Photo and restarting - opening the .ORF shows the same behavior. However, opening an .afphoto file from a previous instance shows the image correctly.

I agree. It is very disappointing that this annoying bug is still not fixed. ... and thank you, Twilkie, for the workaround. Nevertheless, it's a nuisance to have to go through these extra steps.