I'd guess it might be faster with a Canon, but I dunno. It took them 6 dos to get RAW for my E-M10. In particular if something similar the X-Trans comes along, the question whether Apple will support it (they never supported Foveon) and how well.Īnd there's also the question of the speed of development. as they use that in their phones and by extension to some degree in Photos). I think the open question is whether Apple invests much in improving the raw conversion algorithms (they will keep improving general image adjustments like NR, sharpening, tone mapping, etc. If you look at Microsoft, they also provide raw support in Windows without having anything near a professional raw converter or DAM (they bought one of the latter and then let it wither). Only for Nikon and Canon does it support all compacts.Īpple just added the Nikon D810a, ie, I think they are still committed to same level of camera support they had five years ago. Apple supports almost all premium compacts (exceptions are Fuji X10, XF1, Pentax MX, Q10).Apple last added a Samsung camera in December 2011 (wonder why )).Outside of MF, Apple supports basically all ILCs (DSLR + mirrorless) with only a few exceptions (Pentax K-O1, Ricoh GRX, Canon 60Da).Apple only supported selected MF cameras and after 2010 stopped adding any additional models.Though it does support most of them via DNG. Apple does not support any Casio, Ricoh, Sigma, Phase One, Mamiya or Kodak cameras (exception SLR/n).Apple supports only about 2/3 as many cameras as Adobe.Below is a summary of comparing the complete list of supported cameras by Apple and Adobe from two years ago: They will certainly keep offering raw conversion at the current level (they've stepped back a little several years back when they stopped adding MF cameras, as well as Samsung camera, read into that whatever you want).

Now that Aperture is out and Photos is not professional, will Apple be providing any more professional raw conversion software of their own? And if not, then how motivated will they be to provide high quality OS-level digital camera raw updates in the future when there are so many other companies providing a choice of conversion styles?

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