RAW support for the OM Solutions OM-1

[baldrick]

When will Affinity Photo have RAW support for the OM Solutions OM-1?

[NotMyFault]

Best guess: in 9-12 month. Maybe faster, maybe never.

Affinity just (March 2022) published Photo 1.10.5 for Windows, including LibRAW from Oct. 2021. Now allow LibRAW about 3-6 month to support the OM-1.

On Mac, Apple may provide support faster for AppleRAW, giving you have 2 options for RAW support.

 

[janvangastel]

I sincerely hope This RAW-support for the OM-systems OM-1 camera (.ORF files) will be added to affinity photo soon. I have to fall back to an external raw editor with this camera and I prefer to do everything in affinity photo, like I did with my former camera.

[MiPo]

I am facing the same problem (as probably many other useres) and I hope that the raw support for the OM-1 will be implemented soon.

 

[Ron P.]

Need to voice your request/demands with LibRAW, as Serif relies on them for these profiles.

[Blu-By-U]

Any temporary work around while waiting?

[janvangastel]

I use ART: https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home . It works fine and has more to offer (for RAW development) then affinity photo at the moment, even when .ORF was supported.

Edited July 19, 2022 by janvangastel

[MiPo]

@Ron.P: Thanks for your hint. Just had a look at www.LibRAW.org and found the following comments for version 0.21 beta1 but I am not sure what the difference is between Camera format support and camera support. At least it seems to be on its way (hopefully 🙂 )

https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-21

LibRaw 0.21 (Beta1)

Submitted by lexa on 4 July, 2022 - 10:29

LibRaw 0.21 (beta1) is just published in our Github repository. Changes are:

Camera format support

• Phase One/Leaf IIQ-S v2 support
• Canon CR3 filmrolls/RawBurst
• Canon CRM (movie) files
• iled bit-packed (and 16-bit unpacked) DNGs
• (non-standard) Deflate-compressed integer DNG files are allowed

Camera support

• Canon EOS R3, R7 and R10
• Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II
• OM System OM-1
• Leica M11
• Sony A7-IV (ILCE-7M4)
• DJI Mavic 3
• Nikon Z9: standard compression formats only

[Iliah Borg]

On 7/17/2022 at 10:20 AM, Ron P. said:

Need to voice your request/demands with LibRAW, as Serif relies on them for these profiles.

Just in case:  LibRaw is a free and opensource library. We are not under any contract obligations with Serif/Affinity. We accept requests, but not demands.

On a side note, I don't remember a single request coming from Serif/Affinity themselves.

[Iliah Borg]

On 7/19/2022 at 6:23 AM, MiPo said:

@Ron.P: I am not sure what the difference is between Camera format support and camera support.

When raw decoder and metadata structure stay the the same as they were with some previous model, we tend to say "camera support"; but when either of those are different,  we prefer to say "format support".

[Blu-By-U]

So still no update to support the OM-1 ORF files. 

Is there a way to load the LibRaw program to enable that Raw development? 

[gmdewulf]

Mark me down as another OM-1 user still looking (10/2022) for Affinity RAW support.

[mike13]

I´ve searched a bit, but still didn´t find any statement, at what date we could hope to get the possibility to directly open Raw-Files of the OM-1 in affinity Photo.

Does any statement exist, and I couldn´t find it?

I find myself beginning to look for a different sollution.

I´m hoping for a sollution of Affinity Photo. At least a planning of a date would help here.

[janvangastel]

ART (a fork of RawTherapee) and Darktable (there's one version that can open . orf files)are very good alternatives for raw development and totally free. Even when .orf files will be supported by Affinity Photo I will keep using these programs for raw development because they are really MUCH better in RAW development then Affinity Photo , which has only rudimentary raw development possibilities. And it is very easy to load the raw developed files into Affinity Photo as .tif files. Another possibility is to convert the .orf files to DNG files with the free downloadable Adobe DNG converter. DNG is not exactly the same as RAW, but they give very good results. DNG files will open in the raw development module of Affinity photo and will be treated as raw file.  I see no difference with raw.

[GarryP]

2 hours ago, mike13 said:

I´ve searched a bit, but still didn´t find any statement, at what date we could hope to get the possibility to directly open Raw-Files of the OM-1 in affinity Photo.

Does any statement exist, and I couldn´t find it?

 

[MiPo]

I have just checked at https://www.libraw.org/blog for changes, but LibRaw 0.21 has still the status of Beta1.

So I guess there won't be an update of Affinity in the near future containing the readability of OM-1 Raw-files.

I suggest the following work arounds as already mentioned by janvangastel:

developing the files in a raw developer (e.g. OM Workspace, ART, RawTherapee, Darktable or another fee-based raw developer like Lightroom, Capture One etc) and exporting them as 16bit-Tiff-files for further processing in Affinity Photo or converting the ORF-files into DNG-files via Adobe DNG-Converter https://helpx.adobe.com/de/camera-raw/digital-negative.html#downloads
-scroll a bit further down until you see the following blue download-links:

 

[mike13]

Unfortunately do all Informations leave out any information regarding "At what date...".
So I take this for an answer: "No, doesn´t exist"

[Jibz]

Now that Ventura is out, OM-1 RAW files are natively supported by the OS.

However Affinity doesn't support OM-1 RAW files, does it need an update to be able to read them?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Jibz said:

However Affinity doesn't support OM-1 RAW files, does it need an update to be able to read them?

Affinity uses LibRAW to process raw files, and LibRAW doesn't support them yet. 

On macOS you can use the Assistant Manager in Photo to switch to using the RAW developer built into the OS.

[Iliah Borg]

But we do, even in the public version, since 4 July, 2022:

https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-21

If FastRawViewer / RawDigger display the raw, it is supported in LibRaw.

[Jibz]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Affinity uses LibRAW to process raw files, and LibRAW doesn't support them yet. 

On macOS you can use the Assistant Manager in Photo to switch to using the RAW developer built into the OS.

Thanks so much for the tip! I totally forgot about that setting

[walt.farrell]

17 minutes ago, Iliah Borg said:

But we do, even in the public version, since 4 July, 2022:

https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-21

That's only a Beta release, and in any case I don't think there's been an Affinity release since then. 

18 minutes ago, Iliah Borg said:

If FastRawViewer / RawDigger display the raw, it is supported in LibRaw

Thanks. I wasn't aware they used LibRaw.

[Iliah Borg]

Dear Sir:

Yes, it's a Beta, which means we are open to adding features before the release.

OM-1 is officially supported in FastRawViewer since February: https://www.fastrawviewer.com/blog/FastRawViewer-2-0-4-Release

[Patrick Connor]

1 hour ago, Jibz said:

Now that Ventura is out, OM-1 RAW files are natively supported by the OS.

I'm daily searching for the iPasOS16 and macOS Ventura equivalent of this page to understand the new native support. It took a month after iOS 15 was launched before it appeared. Has anyone here seen a pre-release list during the Ventura betas?