The Pros and Cons of Using Apple’s RAW Engine Other cameras have been out long enough that one has to wonder if they will ever be supported by Apple. I believe that camera support is just not as important to Apple as it used to be. I don’t know why it took that long, but priorities undoubtedly factor in. Still, the backlog is considerable, and new cameras come out all the time.Įighteen months for a popular camera brand is not acceptable. I will say that Apple has issued two or three camera updates this year, which is certainly good news. Other cameras have also taken over a year to support. ![]() Apple just released support in May 2021 - eighteen months later. For example, the Fujifilm X-Pro3 was released in November of 2019. High profile cameras have been out for over a year without support. For the past couple of years, it’s been abysmally slow. With respect to Apple’s camera support, it’s always been a little slow. Some cameras have many modes, each of which has to be calibrated separately. The time to calibrate varies from company to company, and camera to camera. There can be other attributes that must be determined camera by camera, but this is a core set. The images are shot to measure such things as noise characteristics, color gamut, sensor sensitivities, and lens distortion / vignetting. That phase is the difference between file format support and camera support and it’s very important.Įach software company (Adobe, Apple, etc.) has its own process for calibrating a camera, but in general, the process involves taking a series of images under controlled circumstances. The next phase involves careful calibration and analysis of images from that camera. If successful, a preliminary image becomes visible, but it’s not ready to ship. At that point, they can try to decode the sensor data for display. RAW files are not documented, which is problem #1 for camera support.Ĭompanies have to reverse-engineer the file format and then try to understand the proprietary data. Manufacturers have generally considered their RAW files to be proprietary or to contain “secret sauce” - metadata about their cameras or sensors that they hide in proprietary tags or even encrypt. What takes so long to add support for a camera? ![]() Today, I’m going to describe how RAW Power is breaking free of its dependence on Apple’s camera support schedule with a new, unique feature that provides support to you faster than ever before. In addition, GoPro users have never had RAW support for any of their cameras from Apple. While Apple supports hundreds of cameras, the problem of unsupported RAWs happens all-to-often to photographers on the Apple platform, and the problem is getting worse with time. You start to reconsider your decision of editing platform. Your Lightroom-using friends are happily editing images from the same camera. You think, “Well, it’s a pretty new camera support will come soon enough.” So, you wait. You load them into Photos or RAW Power but you discover the RAW images are not supported. You buy a new camera and start taking pictures. Posted in Uncategorized Breaking Free: The Future of RAW Camera Support If you aren’t on the mailing list, I suggest joining it – that’s where the big news always is published first (and I very rarely send email, so it’s not something you are going to regret doing). ![]() When it is, I will be sure to let you all know. I’m very excited about the opportunity to show it to everyone. ![]() The reason the updates have been smaller is because I’m working on something really cool (and large), which cannot be released piecemeal. Well, I’m working as hard (or harder) now than I was before. People have noticed that the rate of updates has slowed considerably in the past several months and wanted to know why. It has some new camera support and bug fixes. I just released version 3.4.10 of RAW Power to the App Store. It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post.
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