Problems macOs Ventura and Photos App.

Edited Nikon D850 RAW photos still blurry in Apple Photos on brand new Mac M2 Mini fully up to date with Ventura 13.2.1.

This is still happening - I just got a new M2 Mac mini last week. Syned my Photos library to it - I have "Download Originals to this Mac" enabled. Storage is all internal using the SSD that came in the Mini. So this is brand new and vanilla - I took some pictures today. Imported them from an XQD card directly into Photos. I am shooting the highest quality RAW the D850 will shoot ("NEF (RAW)" and Image size "RAW Large") with "C" firmware version 1.20.

Here is a crop of what the image looks like in thumbnail or zoomed in view after I edited it - it is grainy and missing detail:

However- If I click the "Edit" button in Photos, it finally shows up as it should:

There are multiple issues asw editing/using RAW photos in Ventura's version of Photos. Fuzziness of image as noted is one. Another is that any edits followed by a zoom action will tend to lock the zoom scale to one scale regardless of where the adjustment setting slider is set. Finally, in export the whole app tends to bind up, becoming non-responsive and displaying the spinning beach ball, forcing a quit.

To add to this problem, if I click on a photo to edit it it immediately sharpens up in the editing window and stays sharp until I look at another photo. It's a huge problem when trying to figure out if a photo is any good or not, because when you look go forward and back between your photos they are not clear, to check if they are clear you need to go to edit and then they clarify.

I can also confirm that this happens in my iCloud photo library (which is set up. optimize photo storage) but it also happens when I use a local library - with all images store on my computer.

I can also confirm that if I try to put those photos into a slideshow that the photos remain blurry - the only solution was to export all the photos as JPEG and then reimport them and add them to a slideshow.

not 13.2. but, upgrade to 13.1.

Can you post a couple of screenshots (CMD-shift-4) to show what you mean?

What happens if you open one of the raw files in preview?

What happens if you revert to original, and then try the edits again?

Does this happen with jpg images or only the raw files.

Can you download a raw file from a different camera - does it happen with this?

Curious if you are still encountering this issue? It seems fixed for Sony ARW files (ditto the supplanting of generic icons for raw images with expected thumbnail icons. (OS 13.4.1). Been so busy playing with DXO 6 I had forgotten about the issues, but seems fixed, without fanfare.

Try double clicking on the image to get it full size. Still blurry? That might force a redrawing of the preview.

Send feedback to Apple.

Does it happen in Preview?

Which is why you have to send Apple feedback:

Product Feedback - Apple

Have you tried Image>Copy Adjustments from the first version and Paste Adjustments to the re-loaded image? Might save you some time..

Is the camera battery fully charged or the camera connected to a power supply? Have you tried to use a card reader?

After the upgrade to Ventura my Macs are having problems to recognise devices without an own power supply.

Ventura should be able to read the RAW files from the Nikon Z7, if the camera is in the correct mode for downloading (Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura - Apple Support). Can Image Capture see the camera for downloading?

I am having problems with the Ventura photos app no longer recognizing my usual photo file that has worked before for decades...

It makes trying to use any photo impossible...

My problem has nothing to do with RAW photos or discs from any other camera. All photos are taken on my iPhone and used to sync with all my devices.

Thanks for the illustration. Same problem here (Canon RAW). Also noticed the Zoom slider full to the right showing 526% magnification in my case (or something else like 700% even). Effectively my crop is magnified just about 100%. So something definitively wrong in the applications bowels.

New observation (for me): setting the screen saver to one of my Photo's albums displays JPEGs fine but not DNGs. With the Ken Burns effect, for example, DNGs load blurry for an instant and then snap into focus, the colour is off, and the original photos rather than those in the selected album are displayed.

I’ve had a similar blurry image problem for the last 7 months. Using Photos with iCloud from an iPhone 14 Pro and ProMax as well as a Sony a7c and an Olympus OM-1 II. So its not the devices, its the software. Seems to me this happened a a couple years ago as well, but I don’t recall the solution, although the problem resolved. I initially thought it was simply that the photos were taking a very long time to upload to the iCloud but now I’m not sure and I doubt it.

Has anyone received definitive answers from Apple?