Panasonic Lumix GX880 raw files cannot be viewed on macOS. For some reason the camera isn't in the list of supported devices. Called the support team that told me to check the issue with Panasonic but it's obviously an Apple issue. A similar question has been asked a few years ago with no answer.
Thanks
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.2
It doesn't appear to me that RAW files from your camera are supported. See this:
Look at how many even just Panasonic cameras are on this list! Every camera model and sub-model of every camera maker has its very own RAW format that's different from all the others. Apple doesn't seem interested in writing new code to support every new one that shows up, and I find it hard to blame them for that.
You can use Adobe's free Digital Negative (DNG) converter to make a universally acceptable RAW picture file. (Since it's "universal," it may lose some information from different models-- it's hard to know.) This is the format that Lightroom uses when it creates a new (edited) file, and Apple and Photos supports it. The converter is free:
https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter.html
Panasonic may offer its own editor (most companies do) that will process its RAW formats. Photos doesn't really offer much for RAW data, anyway.
"Who is sending angry post to Keith??"
You obviously don't spend much time on message boards. 8^)
It is DNG that is the standard raw format. If RAW's were standard they would not be raw.
Thanks for the long reply and the converter tool suggestion. I'll try that.
And yes it's a mystery why most Panasonic raw files are different - it seems to be a market thing according to the whole list.
gxbernard wrote: …it seems to be a market thing according to the whole list.
It's not marketing. Each camera's sensor is different, and each camera's computer offers different processing, so they store the data in a way that is appropriate for that model. I can see it starting that way, but by now you'd think that at least each company would come up with a general format. Seems to me much more like laziness on the part of the manufacturers.
This is strange because as far as I have read, the GX880 is the same camera as the GF10 and GF90, and both these are listed in the supported cameras for iOS18 : Panasonic LUMIX DC-GF10 and Panasonic LUMIX DC-GF90
Keith Barkley wrote: Sorry. Some cameras are never supported.
I want to point out that Keith is "sorry" out of sympathy, not out of responsibility. Sending angry posts to Keith will not make him fix anything, since he (or I) does not work for Apple.
This is strange because as far as I have read, the GX880 is the same camera as the GF10 and GF90
Well they're almost the same camera, and certainly share the same sensor or a close one, but for some reason (image processing ?) raw files are different. I actually discovered this issue when trying to read files, I thought the raw was as universal as jpg a format, at least for a given manufacturer.
Anyway it's an old cam now (almost) and will never be supported. Sad.
You obviously don't spend much time on message boards. 8^)
No I don't - well not on this board, but I'm well too aware of that sort of "complaint mentality", sadly. Good luck with that & thanks again for picking up the issue even if there is no solution.
As far as DNG is concerned, it seems to be not that well regarded, a lot of people claimed they stopped using it. I guess their raw files are properly read :)
Keith Barkley wrote: … I am in the same boat with my TG-5.
And my Nikon Z8 compressed RAW, as well. But I'm pretty OK with the work arounds. It helps to have jpgs with the RAWs so I can use Photos to decide which (few) of my pictures will benefit from RAW development.
gxbernard wrote: … As far as DNG is concerned, it seems to be not that well regarded, a lot of people claimed they stopped using it.
As I said about DNG, "Since it's "universal," it may lose some information from different models-- it's hard to know." The only way to know for sure how it works with your camera is to try it out. The converter is free.
Sorry. Some cameras are never supported.
Thank you, Richard. I am sorry because I am in the same boat with my TG-5.
Who is sending angry post to Keith??
RW2 (raw) support for GX880
