Does Affinity Photo V2 support the Fuji RAW format?

[Alan Sh]

I've just purchased V2 of Affinity Photo. I've been a long time admirer of Serif back from the Web Plus days and couldn't resist the black friday offer.

I have a Fuji X-T5 system and take pictures in Raw. Previously I was using Capture One, but I am disappointed with the licensing of it.

HOWEVER - if I open a raw file in Affinity Photo 2, it is not sharp at 100%. If I open it in Capture One, it is crisp and sharp. I've attached a couple of screenshots for you to compare. I think you can see which is which. I have done nothing to either image apart from opening it in the relevant package.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Alan

 

[walt.farrell]

The X-T5 is not listed as a supported camera if you've configured Photo to use the Serif Labs RAW Engine. See

However, I wouldn't expect that to affect sharpness.

My guess is that Capture One was applying some sharpening automatically. Photo won't do that, but you can apply various settings for that either in the Develop Persona or later in the Photo Persona.

[Alan Sh]

C1 doesn't apply sharpening unless told to do so. I think Photo2 has taken the embedded jpg out of the raw file. I did try to apply sharpening, but the results weren't good.

That list is over a year old. How does one go about getting the raw format supported? It's very similar to the X-T4, just a lot more data. Otherwise the program is essentially useless to me (I know, I should have checked before buying it, but I never thought Serif wouldn't support a camera that came out aout a year ago).

thanks for any advice.

Alan

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Alan Sh said:

I think Photo2 has taken the embedded jpg out of the raw file. 

If it did that, it would not open the file in the Develop Persona. So which persona does it open the file with?

3 hours ago, Alan Sh said:

That list is over a year old. How does one go about getting the raw format supported?

Basically, you can't. That's because with one partial exception the Affinity develop engine relies on the LibRaw release decoder (as mentioned in the supported list) or the Apple one in the Mac version.

So the best you can do is contact the LibRaw people, & just wait for a new release to be incorporated into AP.

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Alan Sh said:

C1 doesn't apply sharpening unless told to do so

Are you sure it's not applied by default, unless you tell it not to? 

4 hours ago, Alan Sh said:

That list is over a year old

No, it must be newer than that. It says it covers 2.2.x, and 2.2.0 wasn't released until September 2023, just two months ago. 

I think the date you're seeing on it is the original date it was posted for V2, but they Edit the post's content for each new release, which leaves the original date in place.

[Alan Sh]

Well, it still doesn't support my camera according to the list and that has been out for a year.

I wish I'd never bought the product now.

Alan

[Komatös]

Anyone who wants to achieve something is looking for solutions!

One possible solution would be to use the freely available DNG converter from Adobe.

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter.html#:~:text=download the dng converter

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Fujifilm X-T5" (REF: AF-1799) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2256".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[Alan Sh]

@Serif Info Bot - thanks for the update, but I have moved away from Affinity now. I would have loved to stay with you, but I cannot test it as I got a refund and no longer have a license for the product.

I wish you all the best with the product.

Alan