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BW Images still open as colour, and even if converted to BW, lose all the Foveon benefits. There's two ways to obtain BWs from Foveon RAWs, and neither works. Similar crops below from the same image, all at 200% zoom (slight variations in cropping). Most recent of multiple posts (prior beta) Above: AP 1.7.2.414 choosing BW Above: AP 1.7.2.414 choosing BW and only using blue channel Above: IrfanView 4.5.2 as opened (uses DCRaw) Above: Sigma Photo 6.6.1 Export using Blue Channel only

Hi. Was able to try out Affinity Photo (latest revision over the holidays) for two days before my trial ended. It seems my lenses were not detected, but I think that may be because of the crop factor precion: one camera of mine is crop factor 1.5, whereas the closest database matches were 1.52 or 1.53. Does it need to be an exact match (2nd decimal matching)? Also, the qualities of the program seemed excellent, except I couldn't find where to disable all demosaicing and zero the sharpening. It appeared like both were always being applied to some extent. Would love an additional 5 days test armed with how to do that: if I can, consider this a conditional sale. Thanks!

Photo Beta 1.7.0.178, Windows build on Windows 10 Pro Affected: RAW develop module Observed: Imported image from Panasonic micro four thirds camera does not benefit much from detail refinement. At full strength with a proper radius the image is only a wee bit more sharp than a RAW image imported in Adobe Camera RAW 11 with NO sharpening applied. Third example below shows same image in Adobe Camera RAW with just the default sharpening applied - and even a bit of masking. Note: The demosaic code in use in Affinity Photo (I assume you are using the open source UFRaw, results are similar) render images slightly blurred and does not enhance details much. Perhaps as a result of this Below: Same image developed in Photo with no detail refinement in RAW - now tried with 1px radius unsharp mask applied, factor 2.4 (a lot). 0.8px is probably a bettter setting but still - image suffered from a poor demosaic technology. The unsharp mask had less to work with. "CITY" is not affected much by any radius. Below: Last example: Left totally unsharpened Nikon RAW image (from expensive, SHARP macro lens) from Camera RAW 11. Right same totally unsharpened Nikon RAW image i Affinity Photo ... and from the Nikon OOC JPG with just a little sharpening for comparison.. ... DxO Photolab 1 with no sharpening (but with lens modules (standard)) for comparison Capture One vs Affinity Photo Top: Unsharpened and sharpened a bit. Nice micro contrast and well defined edges. There is even noise reduction included. (Capture One Pro) Bottom: Unsharpened, sharpened a bit and massively sharpened. Radius is the same but I have to push the factor slider far too much. This causes artifacts on the rest of the image. (Affinity Photo) Disclaimer: To be honest - normally pixel peeping is for amateurs. What matters is the image as a whole on paper or screen. Sometimes you need the details though - and heavily cropped images (sometimes you have to) will look worse than images from other RAW converters. A little smartphonish. And a more effective demosaic would give sharpening tools a little more to work with - images will be sharpened more naturally. Especially minor details. I am not after the sharpest demosaic method on the market - I am concerned about the rendering of the image, thats why I use Capture One Pro myself, but in Affinity Photo RAW images are undercooked by... UFRaw?