mwilliams Posted August 5, 2023 Posted August 5, 2023 I am considering the purchase of Affinity Photo 2 but was surprised to find that the raw files from my Panasonic Lumix S5ii are not supported. Until they are I'm unlikely to purchase the program. Can you give me any indication of when this situation is likely to change?
fde101 Posted August 6, 2023 Posted August 6, 2023 If you are on a current version of macOS, you can use the Apple RAW engine instead of the Serif one, and then it is supported. For the Serif RAW engine used in Windows versions of the Affinity products (and as an alternative to the Apple engine in macOS) it generally follows the releases of libraw, so you are better off checking on the release schedules for that project than asking here: https://www.libraw.org/node/2753
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2023 Posted August 6, 2023 1 hour ago, fde101 said: If you are on a current version of macOS, you can use the Apple RAW engine instead of the Serif one, and then it is supported. Not according to the Apple Support pages the Affinity FAQ points to, as far as I can see. -- 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 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 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 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
fde101 Posted August 6, 2023 Posted August 6, 2023 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Not according to the Apple Support pages the Affinity FAQ points to, as far as I can see. They may be pointing to a version for an older macOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213267
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2023 Posted August 6, 2023 2 hours ago, fde101 said: They may be pointing to a version for an older macOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213267 No, they point to that one, where it says: It does not say that the S5II is supported. Even LibRAW (and the FAQ for Photo 1 and 2) says that the S5 is supported. -- 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 1: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 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 26.0, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
fde101 Posted August 7, 2023 Posted August 7, 2023 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: No, they point to that one, where it says: It does not say that the S5II is supported. Even LibRAW (and the FAQ for Photo 1 and 2) says that the S5 is supported. Panasonic LUMIX DC-S5 Panasonic LUMIX DC-S5M2 Also, I just downloaded a random sample RAW file from the S5 II camera from the web and verified that I can open it in quick view in the finder and in Affinity Photo 2 when it is set to use Apple's RAW engine (it does NOT open correctly when set to use the Serif RAW engine). walt.farrell 1
v_kyr Posted August 7, 2023 Posted August 7, 2023 Related to LibRaw & Affinity see also ,,, Panasonic Lumix S5 ii fde101 1 ☛ 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
PJvanEs Posted December 23, 2023 Posted December 23, 2023 It's December 23rd 2023 and there's still no RAW support for the S5II which I purchased a week ago. The only way to import the photos into Affinity Photo 2 as far as I know is to use Adobe DNG converter and convert the RW2 files to DNG however I can definitely see a slight drop in sharpness and exposure once they're converted if I compare them in Luminar Neo (which does support the RW2 files). I'm guessing there'd be no support for the G9II files either? Hopefully there will be an update to address this issue soon but I wouldn't count on it since the camera has been available for around 10 or so months now.
NotMyFault Posted December 23, 2023 Posted December 23, 2023 1 hour ago, PJvanEs said: It's December 23rd 2023 and there's still no RAW support for the S5II which I purchased a week ago. The only way to import the photos into Affinity Photo 2 as far as I know is to use Adobe DNG converter and convert the RW2 files to DNG however I can definitely see a slight drop in sharpness and exposure once they're converted if I compare them in Luminar Neo (which does support the RW2 files). I'm guessing there'd be no support for the G9II files either? Hopefully there will be an update to address this issue soon but I wouldn't count on it since the camera has been available for around 10 or so months now. It typically takes about 2 years for new Camera models to be supported. Affinity Photo does not apply any sharpening by default in Develop Persona. You can use Refinement in Develop Personas (chich works globales) or a sharpening filter later in Photo Persona which allows to mask sharpening to certain areas or lightness values Goodby Forum, thanks for good discussion and so much support from great peers and Affinity staff. It was a great pleasure to be part of this fantastic community. After 03.10.2025 find me on https://creofora.com
PJvanEs Posted December 25, 2023 Posted December 25, 2023 On 12/23/2023 at 5:30 PM, NotMyFault said: It typically takes about 2 years for new Camera models to be supported. 2 years? Sony releases a camera every other week so there's a lot of catching up to do Seriously though it might take two years for AP to support new cameras that doesn't seem to be the case for most of the other photo editing softwares like Luminar Neo, Pixelmator Pro etc and I assume Photoshop also supports the S5II (+X) by now.
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