Sony A7V Photomator/Pixelmator RAW support

I just got a Sony A7V, and I'd love to edit the RAW files using Photomator/Pixelmator. Will support be added for this camera?

Posted on Dec 28, 2025 7:32 AM

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Dec 29, 2025 9:09 AM in response to Eric Webster1

Eric Webster1 wrote: … Will support be added for this camera?

No one here can possibly predict this. It doesn't appear to me that RAW files from your camera are supported. See this:

Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and visionOS 2 - Apple Support


Look at how many just Sony cameras are on this list! Every camera model and sub-model has its very own RAW format that's different from all the others. Apple doesn't seem interested in writing new code every time new ones come out, and I find it hard to blame them for that. It makes you wonder why Sony (or Nikon, or ...) can't come up with a single format that all their cameras can use.


You can use Adobe's free Digital Negative (DNG) converter to make a universally acceptable RAW picture file. This is the format that Lightroom uses when it creates a new (edited) RAW file, and Apple and Photos supports it. 


I have my Nikon Z8 save both jpgs and RAW files. I import the jpgs to Photos, and I use those jpgs to curate my pictures, rejecting most of them. I may have to make preliminary adjustments to the jpgs in Photos to help choose the best. With Photos editing, many of the jpgs are lovely on their own, But for the ones that seem like they could benefit from their RAW information, I edit them with either Nikon's NX studio (free!) or Adobe's Lightroom classic (subscription--bah!) I get the best results I can for these selected images with the RAW editors, and I save a jpg that I can import to Photos. I sometimes find that I can further improve the image a bit with Photos own editor.  I keep only about 15% of the pictures as "Favorites," and a bit less than a third of those are edited in a RAW editor. Photos does fine with the other jpgs.


I imagine that Sony has its own editor that you can use for the first step.




Sony A7V Photomator/Pixelmator RAW support

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