Love using Affinity Photo 2, Mac - any idea when the new Panasonic RAW RW2 to be supported?

[Glitchdog]

So appreciate all the good work that is going on behind the scene with the Affinity products. Thank you!!

Regarding the newer RW2 format on the Panasonic GH6... I see others have been posting around the web regarding the same issue with that camera and some other Panasonic cameras. Any idea when support for the new version format will be implemented in Affinity Photo 2 (AF2)? The older RW2 format opened fine, no problem.

Ironically I dropped the same RW2 file into Pixelmator Pro and I was able to view and edit with no issues. Apple Preview also opens the file. So it looks like Pixelmator Pro will be my workflow till an update hits AF2. 

[stokerg]

Hi @Glitchdog,

I can see from your previous posts that you run Affinity on a Mac, which means you get access to 2 RAW Engines.  Depending on the version of MacOS, you may find setting the RAW engine to Apple Core and then trying to open a RAW file from the GH6 might work (it does on MacOS Ventura).  To do this, just open Affinity and click on the Affinity Photo menu in the top left corner of the screen and select Settings, then click on Assistant and click on the button Develop Assistant and here you can change the RAW engine from Serif LABS to Apple (Core Image RAW).  

 

[Glitchdog]

Hi @stokerg. Awesome, thank you for answering!! It does indeed work great on our Mac with Ventura, but not on the one that is still running Monterey. It is slower to load than RAW from my GH5, but I can live with that.

One slight modification for me, it's "Preferences", instead of settings. I also just discovered that nice icon in the top menu bar that looks like googles with two little eye-balls for development assistant settings.

 

Thanks again for posting!

[walt.farrell]

23 hours ago, Glitchdog said:

One slight modification for me, it's "Preferences", instead of settings.

I think that depends on what version of macOS you're using.

[fde101]

20 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I think that depends on what version of macOS you're using.

Yes, the "iPadification" effect - it changed from Preferences to Settings in macOS 13 (Ventura) throughout practically the entire system, with even most applications changing their "Preferences" menu option to a "Settings" one, but some older apps may not adapt unless/until their authors update them.

Some apps are too bone-headed to adapt to platform conventions regardless and will probably always say "Preferences" or "Setup" or whatever they chose to use for that app; apps with completely custom interfaces such as Blender generally fall into this category.

The Affinity apps are kind of half and half on this, but they do say Settings under macOS 13 in any case.