Affinity Photo Support for Fujifilm products.

[Perkins]

I am a Fujifilm enthusiast and have used Photo for 6 years, mainly to develop .RAF raw images.  Photo V2 beta is the first version that has rendered raw images correctly - previously the the images were rendered very dark (spectrum heavily compressed) requiring a great deal of shadow work with the attendant risk of noise and artefacts.  Congratulations.

I note that V2 beta does not yet support the Fujifilm flagship camera, X-T5, which has been in circulation now for four months.  Also, there are lens options that continue to be missing, in particular the very popular combination XF70-300mm lens + 1.4X convertor, and the pancake lens XF27mm f2.8 WR (the earlier version is supported but not the WR version which is optically the same).

[marrtinr]

I think Affinity Photo v2 does not support well any Fujifilm camera for RAF development. Many users have similar problems (me too) with colors during RAF development. Better to use another soft. For me Capture One solve this issue. I Hope some update comes in the future with better support for Fujifilm cameras

[Brian T]

Check Develop Assistant settings, 'RAW Engine'

I had similar issues when importing RAF files, The Affinity moderator suggested I check the Develop Assistant settings.

I changed the setting to 'Apple (Core Image RAW)', AP2 is now consistent with my other editing software.

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, Brian T said:

Check Develop Assistant settings, 'RAW Engine'

I had similar issues when importing RAF files, The Affinity moderator suggested I check the Develop Assistant settings.

I changed the setting to 'Apple (Core Image RAW)', AP2 is now consistent with my other editing software.

Well since you are under MacOS and as far as you use one of the latest (newest) MacOS versions (...which then by chance may already supports a certain camera model), as only then you can make use of the alternate Apple RAW engine here. - Those under Windows will loose here and are forced to wait, until the LibRaw library which APh entirely relies on, does/will support the respective Fuji camera model. Further users then also have to wait until APh then comes bundled with the latest LibRaw library in some upcoming APh version.

So all in all people have to make themself clear here is, that APh either way always relies on third party software (namely Libraw and/or Apple's RAW engine) here in order to be able to support a certain camera models RAW files at all!

[Vanessa M]

I'm bumping this in Feb 2025. On windows (with amd card if that matters), RAF files are still not supported from the X-T5. Weird chunks of the image get moved around, sometimes the checkered background pops through in those chunks, these all move around everytime the RAW image is updated. Fuji's film simulation presets (available in JPEG and in competing software such as Lightroom and Capture One) are also still absent in the Develop Persona's profiles. I've uploaded a nonsense RAF file to showcase the problem.

[Hangman]

Hi @Vanessa M and welcome to the forums,

If you turn Hardware Acceleration off under Affinity Photo's Performance Settings and reboot Photo, do you still see the same issue?