My first digital camera was a Konica Minolta Dynax 7D. For many of the photos show with this camera I only have a RAW file.
It appears that Aspect is not (yet?) able to read these properly. When importing the photos, I’m only seeing a low resolution image (presumably the preview that is embedded in the RAW?).
It would be great if proper support for this older camera could be included.
I’ve tested with a sample 7D RAW file and it appears that there is no “full size” preview for these files, only a thumbnail. However, by default, the preview is used to display RAW files to maximize speed (especially for Fuji X-Trans images, which are very slow to develop). This can be changed under View → Develop RAWs for 100% Zoom.
It looks like we’ll have to add an automatic fallback to a full developed image in cases like these. I’ve opened a ticket for this (#1541).
Thanks for this. I can confirm that I am seeing a higher resolution photo when enabling this setting. Good enough for me.
I am observing a few minor issues, specifically with the Dynax 7D RAW files:
None of these issues a critical to me. Just a matter of reporting my experiences. Easy workarounds are available to me.
I’m sure there are more important things to be done. I’m quite impressed with what I’m seeing as well as your presence on the community, so keep up the good work!
Do you have the possibility to provide an example RAW that was shot in portrait mode? The only example RAW that we have available is shot in landscape, so I currently have no possibility to reproduce the issue.
When zooming in on the photo, the meta data (ISO, aperture and shutter speed) is not shown correctly. They all show up as 0. Note that correct values are shown on the side panel.
I haven’t been able to reproduce this, but this might be caused by wrongly cached metadata, which could be the consequence of an earlier crash during import/scanning (shouldn’t happen anymore). The metadata pane on the right uses the cached data only for a quick preview and then ultimately reads the actual metadata from the file, whereas the details view relies solely on the metadata cache.
showing black bars art top and bottom
There actually is code in place to remove black bars from RAW thumbnails, because those are pretty common, but for some reason this fails here. The more serious part is that it shouldn’t fall back to the thumbnail at all here, if anything it should fall back to the the full developed version, like mentioned above, or display nothing at all. I’ll look into this.
Thanks for your response.
I’ve sent you a PM with a link for an online folder where you can download a JPEG+RAW pair shot in portrait mode. Hope this helps.
I was able to identify the root cause of this problem. It appears that an XMP sidecar with incomplete information was uploaded together with the RAW image. After removing the XMP, meta data is shown correctly.
I’m actually beginning to wonder if this is also not causing the issue with portrait mode. I’ll play around with it and let you know if I find anything.
Thanks
It turned out that the 7D does not use the usual EXIF orientation field, but instead has an extra field in its proprietary makernotes metadata section. The next release will be able to read that field. However, you’ll have to Image → Renew Cached Data once for the affected images to refresh the cached orientation.