iPad with iPadOS 14.4 and Mac with BigSur 11.2 do not open (Photos) Canon R6 CR3 RAW photos.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2
CR3 means very little here. It's just a file suffix that a lot of recent Canon cameras use. However, Raw support Is added on a model by model basis. You can have CR3s that are supported and ones that are not. Other apps, made by other makers have their own Raw support. It's quite independent of the OS raw support. As the R6 is not on the list you'll need to wait for it to be added if you want to use Photos fro processing Raws. Or, convert it to a DNG using Adobe's free adaptor.
I have Photos 6.0 and BigSur 11.2 on my MacBook Air, but the R6 support is nonexistent.
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Yes, CR3 should be supported since Feb. 2. But in reality Photos app in Mac and in iPad, with the latest OS, do not open a CR3 photo for viewing or editing. I really would need Photos to open CR3 photos for editing. Photos opens Canon 550D and Canon Powershot G9X RAW files for editing without problems, but not Canon R6 RAW, or CR3, files.
I am also very hesitant to do anything extra to the main system disk. That's why I often test suspicious software and things like this on an external Carbon Copy Cloner -cloned backup disk (or a cleanly installed external disk).
But basically you you just download the full Big Sur installer and either run it, or create a bootable USB flash installer, boot it and let it reinstall the system. It should just overwrite the old system install and leave user data intact. But backup before that, just in case. Carbon Copy Cloner allows you to make a bootable backup that can then be cloned back to the main disk if needed.
Just a note, this just worked on a Nikon, too.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252208519?page=2
However, it is *not* working on my machine, I suspect you have to have a currently unsupported RAW file in Photos for it to work.
R5 and R6 are on Apple’s list of supported cameras as of Feb. 2, 2021
R5 ans R6 are on Apple’s list of supported cameras, see my next reply.
Kummallista, erm, weird. Maybe reinstalling Big Sur might help?
Have you updated to macOS 11.2 Big Sur?
Yes, that is the system version I am having installed, on both of my Macs with Big Sur. And I am not seeing the R6 on any of the two Macs in the System Information.
Hmm, then there's two of you missing something. I have tested this on an external cleanly installed Big Sur (11.0.1 updated to 11.1 and then to 11.2). Maybe some old install is misbehaving in your system??
Thank you, Matti.
Photos does import the sample file. But it cannot edit it.
The file is shown with a black preview.
When I open the Edit pane, I am getting the dreaded error message "Cannot start editing. Photos cannot load adjustments for this image".
Yes indeed. I really wonder what have I done differently than you, making CR3 OK for you but not for me and many others. I even changed another and native RF lens to R6, but that didn’t help either. Maybe we have slightly different HW and/or configuration?
If possible, you could try a clean Big Sur install on an external disk.
But beware: just today I tried to make a clean install from Mojave to Big Sur on my main internal drive but the three attempts all taking 60 minutes to download the current Big Sur installer all failed at the final "The update could not be verified. An error occurred while installing the selected updates". Duh! I'll try later maybe in safe mode which seems to be the current trend :-/ Or maybe I just wait for Apple to get its act together.
You are right, that list in my Mac does not contain R6. However, Apple’s list does. Hence there is a conflict between these two.
Yes, I did try both the uncompressed and compressed. Neither worked.
I created a bug report about this to Apple in the Feedback - macOS - Apple
iPad with iPadOS 14.4 and Mac with BigSur 11.2 do not open (Photos) Canon R6 CR3 RAW photos.
