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Apple sent out new camera support on Tuesday. The web pages are not updated yet.
Fujifilm X100V, X-A7, X-T200, Nikon D6.
Apple’s RAW support is a bit of a mess. I know they are working on camera support and I expect new camera support to come quite soon. In the past they would ship new support with a new version of the OS, but I think now they are just shipping it as “mobile updates” that are downloaded in the background. I’m not a big fan of this, but I don’t get a vote 🙂
They will update this page when support is updated.
–Nik
The downloadable trial is unlimited in duration. The only restriction is that exports and edits are watermarked.
Hi,
Thanks for the detailed report. I will try it myself to see if I can reproduce the issue. It seems strange that it affects a) jpegs and b) just from one camera and c) from one walk.
A few questions:
1) Can you import one of the problematic JPEGs onto the “Files.app” side side of the app and do similar steps to edit and export?
2) Would you willing to share an original image with me to try? If so, please email support@gentlemencoders.com with a full size original.
3) It looks like 14.2 has shipped, so perhaps it’s worth trying that? That’s what I’m going to install since it’s available.Thanks.
–Nik
I cannot imagine Apple not having a Photo app or a connection to iCloud. Services are their big moneymaker now.
I hope to add more functionality on the file browser side but it’s going to take a while to get there. I have many top priorities:-)
Right. Photos is no Aperture and I have tried to fill in the gaps where possible. Note that Aperture and Lightroom were developed by enormous teams for more than 10 years. Aperture took several “man-centuries” to develop (including engineers, testing, etc.).
Photos on Mac has no limit on the number of libraries. Each library stands alone and can be keyworded, etc. Only one can be synced to iCloud.
RAW Power will work with the “system photo library” which you can also change as needed. My YouTube channel has a video on managing multiple libraries.
Yes the 2 TB limit is a real problem for people with larger libraries. I don’t have a good answer for you except that you can maintain multiple libraries with Photos. If you do not need cloud access for your entire > 2TB library, then you could make a smaller library that is for iCloud and sync that. Perhaps older pictures aren’t synced and newer ones are. That is what I would do if my library exceeded the storage limits.
The Aperture “infinite slider” (that’s the name for the numeric field with the two arrows) is an interesting custom control.
If you want to nudge the slider value in RAW Power, you can double click on the numeric field. Then use the up/down arrow keys with modifiers. You can try different combinations of Arrow, Option + Arrow and Shift+Option+Arrow.
I do plan to add more features to the File Browser such as more flexible storage options and the ability to add more metadata etc.
I do NOT plan to make an entire Aperture-level library in the File Browser mode. Apple has an entire team of people to work on the library for Photos – I’m just one person who has to do the entire app. Making something like Aperture’s DAM is simply more than I can take on.
Keywording in the “File Browser” side of the app is on the list for a future release. However, I’d like to just have a single keyword feature for both Photos and File Browser but of course that depends on Apple.
BTW: While you may only want to use Photos for your iPhone images, you could consider some of Photos’ advantages for your other images, especially paired with RAW Power. The biggest of course is iCloud Photos support. I don’t have immediately plans to create albums and stuff like that on the File Browser side – while those are already provided in the Photo library.
Hi,
I’m glad you are using (and happy with the app). Sorting by size is useful feature, but the problem is that Photos doesn’t provide that information in an efficient way. Basically, I would have to download every original (if it’s in the cloud) and get the size at that point. That’s why a lot of information is only available in Edit mode or after the image has been downloaded – Photos provides only the bare minimum (they don’t even tell me whether the original file is a RAW or not).
Hi Sean,
These are good questions. Apple’s RAW engine is quite limited in its lens correction. Mostly it works for fixed lens cameras (e.g Sony RX 100), micro 4/3rd and newer cameras like the Nikon Z series (I think). They don’t list which ones they support for this.
It’s unlikely that lens correction is being applied for your 50mm 1.8 but it might depend on the camera body. Perhaps there is a crop being applied – I cannot say without looking at the RAW myself.
Yes, RAW Power will detect if lens corrections are being applied. I hope to do more with lens correction in the future, but I do not know for sure what my plans are.
Unfortunately, no. Catalina is the first OS that allows 3rd party apps to read and write the Photo library. This feature was added to iOS a long time ago, but it took until 10.15 for it to make it to the Mac.
