I. Lavi Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Hello Affinity team, I am using SONY alpha A7IV that can produce compressed RAW files that are lossless, just smaller in size. Unfortunately Affinity does not support this type of files. My current Affinity version is 1.10.6.1665. Is it possible to add support of this file type. Thank You, I. Lavi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 5 minutes ago, I. Lavi said: RAW files that are lossless As far as I know, all RAW files are "lossless". Since it is a recording of data taken from the sensor, which must then be converted into image data when developed, it would not be possible otherwise/lossy. 11 minutes ago, I. Lavi said: My current Affinity version is 1.10.6.1665. Is it possible to add support of this file type. Serif has already finished development of version 1. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.5.2636 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.4317. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 37 minutes ago, I. Lavi said: I am using SONY alpha A7IV If you mean the ILCE-7M4 (A7-IV) then that camera is supported in Photo V2, but not in Photo V1 according to the FAQs. I would not expect it to be added to V1, as development has ended there as @Pšenda mentioned. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 If you are using the built-in Serif-provided RAW engine, support largely follows what is released by libraw, and they supposedly added support for this camera in version 0.21: https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-21-release That release is long after development of Photo v1 ended, so you won't be getting support in v1, as others have mentioned. I don't know if 0.21 has made it into the v2 series yet but it should soon if it has not already. What that does not indicate is whether or not this specific format of the camera was added as supported. Information about how to interpret those files is evidently available: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/10556 It is not clear from what I am finding if even Apple's RAW engine supports those files either, otherwise you would have the option of using Apple's RAW engine instead of Serif's if you are on a Mac, and if macOS does support that format, then you could potentially use that even with v1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I. Lavi Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 Thank a lot to all replies to my post. As far as I understand, V2 of Affinity Photo, has support for compressed RAW files produced by SONY ILCE-7M4. (A7-IV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I. Lavi Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 7/4/2023 at 9:55 PM, walt.farrell said: If you mean the ILCE-7M4 (A7-IV) then that camera is supported in Photo V2, but not in Photo V1 according to the FAQs. I would not expect it to be added to V1, as development has ended there as @Pšenda mentioned. Thank you for this info. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judecalvillo Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 I'm still not able to open Sony's "lossless" compressed RAWs (medium-sized), and yes, I'm using the latest version 2.3. I can only open these files with Sony's Imaging Edge software. Is Sony demanding too high of a licensing fee to be able to open these (or are they locked into an exclusive w/Adobe)? It's been a while now, and it gets super tiring/time-consuming to use Imaging Edge in my workflow. Please let us know if there's anything the community can do if maybe some social pressure can help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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