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Congratulations on what will inevitably be a great product. I ran into a couple of problems today. 1) LR to Affinity Photo transfer via Edit In preference is not working. This was documented by another user so I won't beat a dead horse, but this is why I chose to attempt Focus Stacking external to LR (Item 2 below). 2) Ran Affinity Photo in stand-alone mode. Wanted to pull in 23 Canon CR2 photos taken at various focus points. Camera is a Canon 6d with a Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens attached, tripod mounted. Settings were ISO 50, f4.0, and shutter at 1/30 second. Attempted this using the New Focus Merge option. The drop down box indicates a CR2 file is an acceptable input. This method failed with a sequence of "source images" all displayed as bleached out photos with each histogram showing content highly concentrated to the right. The resulting stacked photo also appeared the same way. I then decided to manually convert the CR2's to JPEG's and try again. Success this time. Execution was fast and the result was beautiful. I also have Helicon Focus but did not compare the execution times, but they are probably close. Unfortunately, HF will accept CR2's as input. Request that you investigate and correct. Thanks very much. Jim G.