Affinity Photo and Compressed RAF files.

[PatrickF]

 

Hi,

My first ever post on these forums so hello to everyone, I've done a search but was unable to find anything that relates to the issue I'm writing about here, so my apologies if that isn't the case and could someone kindly point me to that thread?

Before I proceed and in fairness to Affinity Photo checking down their list of supported cameras and at the time of writing, I couldn't see the X-T4 listed so the issues I'm experiencing maybe due to that model not being supported yet.

For the benefit of those that don't have this feature, in the I.Q. menu of the X-T4 there's a menu labelled 'RAW RECORDING' with 3 options: UNCOMPRESSED, LOSSLESS COMPRESSED AND COMPRESSED.
If I take photographs using either UNCOMPRESSED OR LOSSLESS COMPRESSED open them in Affinity Photo no issues, however if I attempt to open the COMPRESSED version of the RAW file all I get is a an image that's split 50/50 down the middle on one side it's totally black and on the other side it's totally white.

I can't replicate this issue in Photoshop, Camera RAW, Capture One 20 or Luminar 4, even Windows Explorer gives me a thumbnail preview, my work around is to convert the files to another format e.g. tiff or similar and I can open the image for editing in Affinity Photo.

Has anyone experienced this, if so are there any other work-arounds? It's no biggy as I'll avoid the  COMPRESSED option, but I thought I'd raise this for the benefit of others and also for anyone that's interested in double checking my findings.

For the record I'm editing using a Windows laptop but I've also tried and experienced the same on my Windows based desktop computer.

I have posted a similar thread on the Affinity Photo forum but still waiting for someone to review the message.

I saved the 3 images out as jpgs from Affinity Photo and have attached them to this topic, labelled according to the setting I used in camera.

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[jerryy]

Affinity Photo for Windows uses libraw

https://www.libraw.org/supported-cameras

which for the X-T4 means: uncompressed and lossless compressed only.

HTH

[PatrickF]

Thanks jerryy,👍

Well! I certainly cocked that one up for a first time post, although I did look at their list of supported cameras even doing a search on the web page I didn't see the X-T4 listed.

Once again thanks for responding jerryy, I will book an appointment with the opticians.

Regards,
Patrick

[jerryy]

That happens to me on an ongoing basis. 😃

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[DonmikoF55]

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Edited May 20, 2022 by DonmikoF55