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RAW parity: cameras, formats, demosaic, colour and lens profiles
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (Leica Q3 verified by a recorded check of 38 private DNGs; EOS R5 Mark II decoded and verified: CRX QP-map escape, odd-height planes) · Target: Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6 (Camera Raw 18.7)
Raw processing is the deepest single dimension of Lightroom parity: a photographer whose camera does not decode, or decodes with the wrong colour, cannot switch. This document measures it model by model. The numbers feed target-app-parity.md; individual shortfalls are ranked in gaps.md. Details per format: cr3.md, raf-compression.md, sony-lens-corrections.md, camera-preview-colour.md, denoise.md.
Headline
| Measure | Value | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe-listed camera models | 1,446 | measured: raw/adobe-cameras.tsv |
| Decoded from sensor data and verified on a real file | 236 (16%) | measured: raw/evidence.tsv |
| Decoder path should handle it, unverified | 941 (65%) | measured from the format rules (631 of them DNG, mostly phones) |
| Preview-only (embedded JPEG) | 233 (16%) | measured |
| Decoder path should handle it, unverified | 942 (65%) | measured from the format rules (632 of them DNG, mostly phones) |
| Preview-only (embedded JPEG) | 232 (16%) | measured |
| Unsupported (not imported, refused or decodes wrongly) | 36 (2%) | measured |
| Models added since 2017 (Camera Raw 10+): verified / unverified / preview / unsupported | 83 / 639 / 24 / 8 of 754 | measured |
| Share of photographers whose camera fully works (decodes from sensor data), use-weighted | ~85% | estimated: measured classes × written usage weights × per-format confidence |
| …of which on a body we have verified | ~42% | estimated, same weights |
| Camera colour: Adobe profiles vs ours | 1,500 Adobe Standard profiles, 481 models with Camera Matching profiles vs 4 bundled profiles + per-file fits + 52 spectral matrices | measured (bundle listing, Adobe list, assets/camera-profiles) |
| Lens profiles: Adobe vs ours | 3,635 vs 0 (in-file corrections only) | measured |
| RAW readiness (decoding 60%, colour 25%, lens 15%) | ~56% (range 50–60%) | estimated, see Scores |
Re-measure with python3 docs/raw/coverage.py (standard library only): it classifies every Adobe
model from the format rules in the script (which mirror crates/raw/src) plus the per-model evidence,
rewrites raw/coverage.tsv and prints the tables below; --check fails when the
committed table is stale.
How it was measured
- Adobe's list: helpx "Camera Raw supported cameras" (the live page refuses scripted requests, so the Wayback Machine capture of 2026-10-03 was parsed): 1,446 camera rows from 40 makers after dropping profile-only rows; maker, model, extension(s), Camera Matching profile, minimum Camera Raw version. The year a model was added is approximated from that Camera Raw major version.
- What we decode: the decoders and their refusals in
crates/raw/src(lib.rsrouting,vendor/*.rscoding variants,crx.rsCRX limits,orf.rs/srw.rscompressed refusals), the import listlightcraft_engine::import::EXTENSIONS, andKNOWN_UNSUPPORTEDincrates/raw/tests/corpus.rs. Doc claims were not used. - Verified means a real file from that body decoded from sensor data in: the corpus test over the
RAW_SAMPLESmanifest (xtask/src/main.rs, 101 CC0 files; bodies whose sample is inKNOWN_UNSUPPORTEDexcluded),crates/raw/tests/cr3_corpus.rs(3 bodies exact against an external decoder; the EOS R5 Mark II pinned, with a QP-map check of 33,665 private files), the RAF reference check (raf-compression.md), and the raw.pixls.us bulk checks recorded in issue #535 (all 100 Sony bodies there; 87 decode) and PR #215 (every Panasonic / Leica RW2 / RWL / RAW body there, 178 files from 118 bodies), and a recorded check of 38 private Leica Q3 DNGs (2026-10-11: every file decoded and developed at full size, 9520 × 6336 and 6336 × 9520; mean CIE76 ΔE to the camera JPEG 6.3–13.9 at 400 px; the files are not committed). Bulk-check body lists were matched to Adobe names through the raw.pixls.us folder names. Checks without a body list (≈ 60 NEFs, 35 CR2 bodies for the CFA layout) are not counted as verified. - Usage weights (raw/usage-weights.tsv): maker buckets from 2025 market data (Nikkei production: Canon ~36%, Sony ~29%, Nikon ~14%, Fujifilm ~12% of mirrorless; BCN retail: Sony 29.9%, Canon 27.4%, Nikon 15.1%), adjusted for the DSLR installed base and for the makers named in this repo's 325 user issues (Sony 33, Nikon 31, Canon 26, phones 23, Fujifilm 9, Panasonic / Leica 8, OM / Olympus 6, Pentax / Ricoh 6). Inside each bucket, 80% goes to the popular bodies of the last ~8 years (listed in the file), 20% to the bucket's other Adobe models.
- Per-format confidence for unverified bodies (the chance their files decode correctly): DNG, CR2, RAF, RW2 0.95; NEF, ARW, PEF 0.9; ORF, SRW, SR2 0.8; CR3 0.6 (the CRX decoder refuses several coding variants and only four bodies are verified; maintainers report the R7 working).
By maker (measured)
| Maker | Adobe models | verified | unverified | preview | unsupported | Main reason for preview / unsupported |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sony | 149 | 86 | 51 | 9 | 3 | DSLR-A200…A390 and A850 12-bit compressed ARW (preview, #535); A100 and DSC-F828 refused (regression #702); SRF not imported |
| Canon | 134 | 12 | 99 | 21 | 2 | CRW (2000–2004 bodies) preview; EOS-1D / 1Ds TIFF raws not imported |
| Samsung | 128 | 1 | 118 | 9 | 0 | compressed SRW (NX1, NX30, NX300, NX500, NX2000, NX3000, NX3300, NX mini, Galaxy NX) |
| Apple | 113 | 1 | 112 | 0 | 0 | — (DNG / ProRAW) |
| Panasonic | 104 | 93 | 11 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Nikon | 99 | 5 | 94 | 0 | 0 | — (HE / HE★ is a per-shot setting, preview-only) |
| Fujifilm | 97 | 16 | 55 | 26 | 0 | pre-X FinePix RAF without a raw IFD (estimated split) |
| 88 | 1 | 87 | 0 | 0 | — | |
| Olympus | 71 | 3 | 9 | 59 | 0 | compressed ORF |
| Leica | 61 | 14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Xiaomi, Oppo, LG, Huawei, OnePlus, Motorola, Nokia | 139 | 0 | 139 | 0 | 0 | — (DNG) |
| Pentax / Ricoh | 60 | 4 | 56 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Hasselblad | 34 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 0 | Hasselblad-compressed 3FR / FFF |
| Phase One / Leaf / Mamiya | 59 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 16 | IIQ, MOS preview; TIFF raws and MEF not imported |
| Casio | 26 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | — (DNG) |
| DJI | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | — (DNG) |
| OM Digital Solutions | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | compressed ORF |
| Kodak, Konica Minolta, Epson, Sigma, GoPro, Contax, others | 56 | 0 | 14 | 27 | 15 | DCR, GPR not imported; KDC, MRW, ERF, X3F preview |
| All | 1,446 | 236 (16%) | 941 (65%) | 233 (16%) | 36 (2%) |
By use (estimated)
| Bucket | Weight | Camera fully works | On a verified body | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canon | 33% | 73% | 19% | 18 of the 22 popular bodies write CR3; 4 of them verified (M50, R8, R100, R5 Mark II), the rest at 0.6 |
| Sony | 27% | 98% | 91% | bulk-checked |
| Nikon | 16% | 91% | 12% | decoders cover every NEF coding but HE; few bodies verified |
| Fujifilm | 10% | 91% | 45% | |
| Panasonic | 4% | 100% | 98% | bulk-checked |
| OM / Olympus | 3% | 3% | 1% | compressed ORF |
| Phones | 3% | 93% | 1% | DNG |
| Pentax / Ricoh | 1.5% | 94% | 14% | |
| Leica | 1% | 96% | 21% | the Q3 verified |
| DJI | 1% | 95% | 0% | |
| Medium format and others | 0.5% | 23% | 1% | IIQ, 3FR, X3F |
| Weighted | 100% | 85% | 42% |
About 5 in 6 raw photographers' cameras decode, but only about 2 in 5 use a body we have actually checked, and Canon, the largest bucket, is the weakest of the big four.
Variant matrix (depth per format)
✅ decoded and checked on real files · 🟡 decoded, partial or unverified · ⬜ preview-only or refused.
| Format | Variant | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| CR2 | lossless JPEG slices | ✅ | 8 corpus bodies; CFA phase from CR2CFAPattern (#85, 35 bodies); masked-column black level; white level from the active area only (#1272: masked rows at 16383 hid the image plateau on the EOS 50D, 60D, 450D (Rebel XSi), 500D (Rebel T1i), 550D (Rebel T2i), 1200D (Rebel T5) and 100D (Rebel SL1), clipped highlights at 81–98%) |
| CR2 | sRAW / mRAW (YCbCr) | ✅ | vendor/cr2/sraw.rs, 31 samples from 16 models |
| CR3 | CRX lossless, version 0x100 | ✅ | M50, R100, R8 exact against a reference; R5 Mark II (odd-height planes) pinned |
| CR3 | C-RAW 0x100 (horizontal tiles), 0x200 (single 14-bit tile, adaptive QP incl. the QP-map escape) | ✅ | same 3 bodies exact; R5 Mark II pinned, QP maps of 33,665 files decode exactly, matches the camera JPEG |
| CR3 | other CRX variants (vertical tiles, partial subbands, other plane flags, 0x200 multi-tile) | ⬜ | refused in crx.rs, falls back to the preview; which bodies write them is unmeasured |
| CR3 | sRAW / mRAW | ⬜ | 4-plane Bayer only |
| CR3 | HEIF / HDR PQ | ⬜ | HEVC tracks recognised, not decoded |
| CR3 | dual-pixel raw | ⬜ | never substituted |
| CRW | all | ⬜ | preview |
| NEF | uncompressed, lossless, lossy type 1 / 2, lossy after split | ✅ | D5100, D7000, D7500, Z f corpus; ~60 NEFs by hand; #633; D4 and D90 image area and white level measured against the camera JPEG |
| NEF | packed 14-bit stored under a compressed tag (Z 6II uncompressed) | ⬜ | #769; fix in PR #671 (not merged) |
| NEF | High Efficiency / HE★ (JPEG XS) | ⬜ | named, preview (#193); needs a JPEG XS decoder |
| ARW | uncompressed, cRAW (ARW2), lossless LJ92 (L / M / S) | ✅ | 86 bodies (#535); M/S black level 1024; the Hasselblad Lunar, a NEX-7 under Make HASSELBLAD, routed by Sony's raw coding (#1275) |
| ARW | packed 12-bit (A900) | ✅ | one CC0 file; A850 unmeasured |
| ARW | ARW6 Compressed / HQ (compression 32766; ILCE-7RM6) | ✅ | 8 CC0 files; 12-bit mode unsupported; docs/arw6-compression.md |
| ARW | 12-bit compressed of DSLR-A200…A390 | ⬜ | preview (#535) |
| ARW | A100 ARW; SRF (F828, V3) | ⬜ | refused (#702); SRF not imported |
| ARW | ARQ pixel shift | ⬜ | no code |
| SR2 | DSC-R1 | ✅ | CC0 3221 sample |
| RAF | uncompressed, lossless and lossy compressed; Bayer and X-Trans; GFX 14/16-bit | ✅ | 24 files from 13 bodies exact |
| RAF | pre-X FinePix without a raw IFD | ⬜ | raf.rs refuses (26 Adobe models, estimated split) |
| ORF | uncompressed 16-bit, 12-bit packed, two-field 12-bit, 12.8 bpp | ✅ | E-1, E-400, XZ-2 corpus; #651 |
| ORF | compressed (every Olympus / OM body since ~2008) | ⬜ | orf.rs refuses; the E-M1 and E-M10 III corpus files are KNOWN_UNSUPPORTED |
| RW2 / RWL / RAW | formats 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 16-bit words | ✅ | 118 bodies (#215) |
| PEF | uncompressed, Huffman, packed 12-bit | ✅ | K10D, K-3, K-5 IIs; files without area tags lose their masked, empty and saturated border lines (#1271: KP, KF, K-3 Mark III, K-70, K-1, K-1 Mark II, K-S1, K-S2, 645Z) |
| PEF / DNG | Pentax pixel shift | ⬜ | frames not combined |
| SRW | uncompressed, 12-bit packed | ✅ | EX1 corpus; NX10, NX20 |
| SRW | compressed 32770 / 32772 / 32773 | ⬜ | refused |
| DNG | uncompressed, LJ92, lossy JPEG / Smart Preview, Deflate incl. float, LinearRaw, tiles / strips, row / column interleave | ✅ | 6 corpus DNGs; 4 ILCE-6400 JXL DNGs; 38 Leica Q3 DNGs (lossless JPEG, 14-bit, private check) |
| DNG | JPEG XL (DNG 1.7, lossless and lossy) | ✅ | synthetic bit-exact; real lossless and lossy files |
| DNG | Apple ProRAW (incl. semantic mattes) | ✅ | iPhone 12 Pro corpus; ProfileGainTableMap read but off (ΔE00 19 against Lightroom with it on) |
| DNG | phone DNGs (Pixel, Galaxy, Xiaomi…) | 🟡 | Pixel 2 XL only; white-level pile-up fix #548 |
| DNG | GoPro GPR (VC-5) | ⬜ | refused |
| 3FR / FFF | DNG-like layouts | 🟡 | decoded when uncompressed or LJ92 |
| 3FR / FFF | Hasselblad compression | ⬜ | preview |
| IIQ, MOS, MRW, ERF, KDC, X3F | all | ⬜ | preview; an uncompressed MOS, whose IFD0 is the mosaic itself with no Make tag, is recognised by Leaf's data block 0x8606 (#1275) |
| DCR, MEF, MFW, DXO, GPR, TIFF raws | all | ⬜ | not imported |
Compressed ORF: a clean-room starting point
Two Olympus patents by Takashi Ishikawa describe the method of lossless RAW compression in prose; neither names ORF and neither gives the file layout. See the closed #240 and the open #360 for why a decoder has to be derived from the files and prose rather than from dcraw-family code.
- US7333035B2: lossless RAW compression for SLR cameras:
median-edge-detector prediction from the left, upper and upper-left neighbours, a separately coded sign, Golomb-Rice
codes whose parameter
kcomes from flatness run counters, counters reset per line. - US7715639B2: a sibling with predictor variants,
kderived from neighbouring positions, raw low-order bits and a correction filter.
They give the algorithm's shape; constants, the bit layout and the stream header still have to be established from CC0 sample files. A pointer for contributors, not legal advice.
Demosaic, levels, crops and lens metadata
| Stage | Target | LightCraft | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayer demosaic | Adobe's own, plus AI "Raw Details" | AHD (default), PPG, bilinear (crates/raw/src/demosaic) |
🟡 quality unmeasured against Lightroom; no Raw Details |
| X-Trans demosaic | ✅ | in-house edge-weighted directional | 🟡 unmeasured |
| Foveon | ✅ (older bodies) | — | ⬜ |
| Monochrome / LinearRaw | ✅ | handled, no demosaic | ✅ |
| Pixel shift (Sony ARQ, Pentax, OM high-res, Nikon) | ✅ (Sony, Pentax, Nikon) | — | ⬜ |
| Black and white levels | per model, calibrated | read from each file (masked columns, maker notes, SR2SubIFD, CMP1) | 🟡 per-body bugs keep surfacing: A450–A700 SR2 black level and M/S ARW pedestal (#535, fixed); 5D Mark IV CR2 renders dark (#455, open); white-level pile-up in phone DNGs (#548, fixed); CR2 white level taken from saturated masked rows (#1272, fixed) |
| Crop masks and aspect | ✅ | DefaultCrop, Sony recorded size, Canon AspectInfo, Panasonic in-camera crops, Nikon CropArea | 🟡 7RM3 / 7RM4 crop origin 8–32 px off (cosmetic) |
| Black and white levels | per model, calibrated | read from each file (masked columns, maker notes, SR2SubIFD, CMP1) | 🟡 per-body bugs keep surfacing: A450–A700 SR2 black level and M/S ARW pedestal (#535, fixed); 5D Mark IV CR2 renders dark (#455, open); white-level pile-up in phone DNGs (#548, fixed) |
| Crop masks and aspect | ✅ | DefaultCrop, Sony recorded size, Canon AspectInfo, Panasonic in-camera crops, Nikon CropArea, measured Nikon bodies without it (D4, D90) | 🟡 7RM3 / 7RM4 crop origin 8–32 px off (cosmetic) |
| Lens metadata | ✅ read for profile selection | EXIF lens fields read; used only for the in-file corrections below | 🟡 |
| Highlight reconstruction | ✅ | neutral clip, chromaticity diffusion (highlight.rs) |
🟡 tuned by eye |
| AI denoise | ✅ Bayer and X-Trans, model bundled | Bayer only, user-installed weights, pure-Rust CPU / GPU | 🟡 no X-Trans, no shippable weights |
| Super Resolution | ✅ | — | ⬜ |
| HDR / panorama merge to raw DNG | ✅ | linear DNG (float16 HDR) with the source's colour tags | ✅ |
| Convert to DNG | ✅ | uncompressed or LJ92 tiles (dngwrite.rs) |
✅ (no lossy DNG) |
Colour
| Item | Adobe | LightCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Default profile per model | Adobe Standard for every model (1,500 profile names in the bundle) | the DNG's own matrices; else a pooled profile (4 bundled: ILCE-7CR, ILCE-7M4, X-H2S, X-T4); else a guarded per-file fit to the camera's embedded JPEG; else spectral matrices (52 models, rawtoaces-data); else a neutral matrix |
| Camera Matching looks | 481 models (plus phone-maker looks) | none (the per-file JPEG fit imitates the camera's own look) |
| Creative profiles | Adobe Color, Portrait, Landscape, Vivid, Monochrome… | our own looks (Color, Neutral, Vivid, Landscape, Portrait, Monochrome) |
| DCP / dual-illuminant model | ✅ | dual-illuminant DNG colour (ColorMatrix / ForwardMatrix 1-2, CameraCalibration, AnalogBalance), HueSatMap, LookTable, ProfileToneCurve; external .dcp never loaded (clean-room) |
| White balance in Kelvin | ✅ for every model | absolute Kelvin where the camera has colour matrices (its own, or one of the 52 spectral rows), also for files whose look is a per-file fit (#730), or where Sony's white-balance presets in the file give the scale (6 bodies, kelvin_presets); other raws keep the relative scale (#296) |
How far the default rendering is from Adobe's (CIE ΔE; measured where stated):
- Against the camera JPEG (what the fit targets): the Sony bulk check (#535) accepted fits on 81 of 87 bodies, median ΔE 5.1, ΔL* +0.2; rejected fits fall back to a neutral matrix at median ΔE 18.5, ΔL* −11, chroma ×0.39. RW2 140 of 174 files accepted, median 5.0. NEF 13 of 13, 2.9–7.8. RAF 23 of 24, pooled X-H2S 1.62 / X-T4 2.34. SRW 2.2–7.6.
- Against Lightroom itself (few): Sony DRO median ΔE76 7.5 → 3.3; Olympus E-1 vs Lightroom Classic ΔE00 11.25 → 8.30; ProRAW with its gain map ΔE00 19 (why the map is off). No measurement against Adobe Standard across models exists.
- User evidence: 33 open issues about raw colour or rendering (wrong colours, dark, flat, green, desaturated), the largest group of open core-path issues.
Colour score ~35% (estimated): most decoded files start close to the camera's own look (ΔE ~5), about 10% start far off (ΔE ~18), nothing is calibrated, Kelvin WB is missing for fitted cameras without colour matrices, and the distance to Adobe Standard is unmeasured. In the readiness numbers this becomes a colour factor of ×0.85 for a working photographer (they correct colour by hand, at a cost) and ×0.75 for the essentials user (the default look is what they keep).
Lens profiles
| Item | Adobe | LightCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Profile database | 3,635 profile files, 56 makers, auto-selected | 0 (Adobe LCPs never used; no database of our own) |
| In-file corrections | ✅ | DNG opcodes (WarpRectilinear, FixVignetteRadial, GainMap…) applied; Panasonic / Leica RW2 distortion (79 photos, 13 bodies, 11 lenses); Sony tag 0x7037 distortion for the ILCE-7RM4A (2 lenses) |
| Vignetting / lateral CA from maker notes | ✅ | ⬜ |
| Manual distortion, vignetting, CA, defringe | ✅ | ✅ |
Lens score ~10% (estimated): automatic correction reaches roughly Panasonic / Leica, phone and drone DNG users (~9% of photographers by the weights above); Adobe reaches nearly everyone.
Scores
| Part | Weight | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding | 60% | 77% | use-weighted 85% × 0.9 (76.5%) for per-body decode bugs still surfacing (levels, crops, WB: #535, #455, #461, #702) |
| Colour | 25% | 35% | see Colour |
| Lens profiles | 15% | 10% | see Lens profiles |
| RAW readiness | 100% | ~56% (range 50–60%) | 45.9 + 8.75 + 1.5; demosaic and highlight quality unmeasured |
The previous estimate (earlier on 2026-10-10) was ~50%, with decoding at ~78% weighted by maker from the format list alone. Measured model by model, decoding comes out about the same; the change is the written decomposition, not new decoding.
Remaining work, ranked by photographers unlocked per hour
Hours are Opus 5.5 agent hours, calibrated on this repo's raw PRs: RW2 every format 6.5 h (#215), compressed RAF 8.6 h (#282), CR3 CRX 10 h (#279), NEF lossy after split 4.7 h (#633), ORF 12.8 bpp 1.7 h (#651), HEIC 7 h (#609). "Gain" is the change in the use-weighted share whose camera fully works, from raw/usage-weights.tsv.
| # | Camera / variant | Gain (points of photographers) | Hours | Gain per hour | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compressed ORF (every Olympus / OM body since ~2008) | +2.6 | 8–15 | ~0.20 | CC0 samples (have 2) |
| 2 | CR3: remaining CRX variants, then verify the other 14 popular CR3 bodies | +6.2 | 25–45 | ~0.19 | samples per body (raw.pixls.us has most) |
| 3 | Verify popular Nikon, Fujifilm, Canon CR2 and Pentax bodies (one CC0 file each, fix what breaks) | +2.0 | 8–15 | ~0.17 | public samples |
| 4 | Nikon packed 14-bit under a compressed tag (Z 6II uncompressed, #769) | +0.2 | 1–2 | ~0.13 | PR #671 exists |
| 5 | Sony DSLR-A200…A390 / A850 12-bit compressed ARW | +0.4 | 3–6 | ~0.08 | samples on raw.pixls.us |
| 6 | Pre-X FinePix RAF | +0.6 | 4–8 | ~0.08 | samples |
| 7 | Sony A100 and DSC-F828 regression (#702) | +0.1 | 1–2 | ~0.07 | samples on raw.pixls.us |
| 8 | Canon CRW (2000–2004 bodies) | +1.2 by the uniform tail weight, far less by real use | 6–12 | ≤ 0.1 | samples |
| 9 | Nikon HE / HE★ NEF (Z 8, Z 9, Z 6III, Z f, Z50II, Z5II set to HE) | +1.1 | 20–40 | ~0.04 | a pure-Rust JPEG XS decoder |
| 10 | Compressed SRW, Hasselblad 3FR, IIQ, X3F, MRW, KDC, ERF, DCR, MEF, GPR | +0.6 together | 45–85 | ~0.01 | samples; low use |
Beyond decoding:
| Gap | Hours | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Measured colour calibration for the ~60 popular bodies, Kelvin WB for cameras without matrices, render-fidelity suite against Lightroom | 80–150 | chart shots per camera (a human with cameras) or licensable measured data |
| Lens profile database of our own (fitting tools, data format, top 100 lenses), maker-note vignetting / CA | 40–80 | calibration shots (a human with lenses) |
| Demosaic and highlight quality measured against Lightroom; X-Trans AI denoise | 15–30 | |
| Total RAW | 255–480 h (decoding list above 120–220 h; ~60% parallelizes) |
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Leica Q3 verified by a recorded check of 38 private DNGs (no decode failure; mean ΔE to the camera JPEG 6.3–13.9): 236 verified, 941 unverified, Leica bucket on a verified body 5% → 21%, weighted shares unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | patch | CR2 white level from the active area, not the saturated masked rows above it (#1272: EOS 50D, 60D, 450D (Rebel XSi), 500D (Rebel T1i), 550D (Rebel T2i), 1200D (Rebel T5) and 100D (Rebel SL1)); scores unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Canon PowerShot G9: as-shot white balance from WBInfo (0x0029, the row of the preset in ShotInfo), issue #1273; render unchanged (the camera-look fit already absorbed it), As Shot now the camera's; counts unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Olympus E-10: as-shot white balance (0x1017/0x1018) and black level (0x1012 in 0x102c ValidBits units) from the main maker note, issue #1273; ΔE76 against its thumbnail 18.5 → 11.5, camera-look fit now accepted; counts unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Nikon D90 image area (4288 × 2848 at 10, 10) and white level (3830) measured on 10 of 550 NEFs from one body: its 42 filler columns no longer develop as a pink band |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Hasselblad Lunar verified (a Sony NEX-7 ARW under Make HASSELBLAD, now decoded): 236 verified, 232 preview; an uncompressed Leaf MOS is recognised as a raw (preview only) instead of opening as a greyscale image of its mosaic (#1275) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Compressed ORF: pointer to the two Olympus patents that describe the method, as a clean-room starting point |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | PEF without area tags: masked border rows and columns trimmed against the BlackPoint (issue #1271; KP, KF, K-3 Mark III, K-70, K-1, K-1 Mark II, K-S1, K-S2, 645Z); counts unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | EOS R5 Mark II verified (CRX QP-map first literal and limited-length escape, odd-height Bayer planes; 4 CC0 files pinned, QP maps of 33,665 private files): 235 verified, 942 unverified; use-weighted 85% (42% on verified bodies); decoding 77%, RAW readiness unchanged at ~56% |
| 2026-10-10 (later) | major | Model-by-model measurement against Adobe's published list (1,446 models: 234 verified, 943 unverified, 233 preview, 36 unsupported); docs/raw/ data and re-measure script; use-weighted share 84% (40% on verified bodies); variant matrix; colour and lens sections with scores; ranked next cameras; RAW readiness ~56% from written parts |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: formats, makers, demosaic, colour and lens checklists; target counts from the installed Lightroom 9.6 bundle listing |