GoPro Hero 7 Black RAW (.GPR) File Support?

[Florian Schwaiger]

Hi,

I wanted to process some images from my last vacation trip and found that Affinity Photo should in theory be able to open GoPro Raw photos from Hero 7 Black. However, it shows all as black pixels. The file should be fine though, I can open it on Photopea. See attached file.

Is something broken here or do I use it incorrectly? 

Kind regards
Florian

GOPR0913.GPR

[Dan C]

Hi @Florian Schwaiger,

As can be seen from the following list, the GoPro Hero 7 Black is unfortunately not a supported RAW camera model at this time - 

We hope to add support for this model in a future version, though I'm unable to provide an eta for this at this time, my apologies.

In the meantime, you could use a DNG converter, (such as Adobes free DNG converter - https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter.html) to convert the .GPR files to .DNG, which then allow these files to be edited in Affinity:

I hope this helps!

[Florian Schwaiger]

I see thanks for this insight. Just to clarify, the Hero7 is supported but the Hero7 Black is not?

I will try the conversion then. 

[Dan C]

No problem at all!

26 minutes ago, Florian Schwaiger said:

Just to clarify, the Hero7 is supported but the Hero7 Black is not?

That's correct, as I understand these cameras use different sensors and therefore each require specific support, my apologies.

[cee]

I very recently made the jump from Lightroom to Affinity Photo and am definitely wishing I'd found this beforehand 😅 I have both a DSLR and GoPro, but the GoPro is just way more practical to take on things like long hikes and motorcycle rides, and I'm able to take some pretty decent photos on it (thanks to post-processing!).

I'm not sure DNG conversion will get me exactly what I want, since Lightroom has the ability to flatten the GoPro's sometimes extreme wide angle fisheye lens distortion.

Either way, following in hopes of updates Thanks for all you do!

Edited August 14, 2022 by cee
unflatten->flatten - brain fart

[Komatös]

Hi @cee

Maybe DarkTable or RawTherapee are better solutions.

https://www.darktable.org
https://www.rawtherapee.com

 

[cee]

RawTherapee does not support GPR files at all, but Darktable does! I did actually poke a bit at Darktable but I found it's UI fairly difficult to quickly grasp as someone used to Lightroom (I loved Affinity for that reason from a usability perspective - it has much of the same sliders I use in LR to quickly get good effects - the only thing I'm really missing is LR's Dehaze slider).

Hm, I wonder if I could use Darktable to import and unflatten the fisheye effect and then save to a format that Affinity can edit. Worth investigating - the alternative is dropping $300 on upgrading to the latest GoPro 10, which isn't out of the question, but not something I was chomping at the bit to do.