Canon RAW Processing in Photos

"That's not accurate."

I'm going with what Apple's documentation says about the feature

"If you import RAW files that were already processed by another app, the RAW processing of the photos might be out of date."

Yeah, I ended up buying DxO. It's a bummer to have shell out the money for a single lens but it does a great job.

"Frankly, Raw support and lens profiling are not obvious areas of focus for Apple these days."

Yep, and if people don't raise the issue it mostly certainly won't get addressed. It's a bummer because third party apps will depend on Apple's RAW processing. So in my case Pixelmator Pro inherits the limitations of Apple's RAW processing. I, generally speaking, like to support smaller and independent developers. I think the world of computing is better with them. It's unfortunate that Apple is helping Adobe keep its strange hold on photography.

Thanks Eric.

Reprocessing RAW is for RAW photos that were processed in another App before being importuned into photos. These photos were imported to Photos so the option to reprocess is greyed out as there is no reprocessing to be done.

"Adobe doesn't have a strangle hold on photography. They are very successful because they make a range of high quality applications, but they are by no means the only players in the field."

Happy to agree to disagree.

"And there are third party editors that do not rely on Apple's raw support - Affinity for instance."

Affinity defaults to using Apple's RAW Processing. They do make their own RAW processing engine but it doesn't include lens correction. If you want to do lens correction in Affinity and you don't use Apple's processing engine then you have to get lens profile and install it. You get the lens profile form ..... wait for it.... Adobe. So even with Affinity your options are Apple or Adobe.

" I think Apple's interest in photography is primarily based on helping phone users to maximise their experience through as much automation as possible, which is pretty much the antithesis of the raw shooter"

This really doesn't explain Apple introducing their own RAW format, Apple ProRAW. I think Apple is supporting and promoting their own format and not as focused on supporting its competitors. It makes sense but is a pain. Also, happy to disagree on this as well.

At this point we are so far off the topic I originally posted. Thank you for the assistance.

Cheers,

MP