Sony A7 V Sony A7M5 Compressed RAW files

[MalcolmD]

I have had my Sony A7M5 for more than 2 months now (great camera overall), and it appears that only Sony's Imaging Edge software can open and process the two varieties of Compressed RAW files.

Is that correct? Have I missed something?

Neither Adobe nor LibRAW can open the files.

If I'm correct, how can we put pressure on Sony to work with other key software providers to unlock these files - which (given the modest size of the buffer) are critical to getting the most out got the headline "30 frames per second" performance.

No other camera seems to have had to wait this long.

MalcolmD

 

[rcreamer]

I'm pretty sure Sony's latest firmware update for the A7R5 changed at least some of the RAW file formats that affected several 3rd party software. Maybe this happened for the A7V as well? Maybe check to see if your 3rd party software has any available updates.

 

[AlphaWorld]

I have had my Sony A7M5 for more than 2 months now (great camera overall), and it appears that only Sony's Imaging Edge software can open and process the two varieties of Compressed RAW files.

Is that correct? Have I missed something?

Neither Adobe nor LibRAW can open the files.

If I'm correct, how can we put pressure on Sony to work with other key software providers to unlock these files - which (given the modest size of the buffer) are critical to getting the most out got the headline "30 frames per second" performance.

No other camera seems to have had to wait this long.

MalcolmD

Nothing Sony can do to make third party software developers support Sony file formats.

Can you clarify what isn't supported? I'd have expected the lossy RAW format that is used in the fastest mode to be supported already, because it is used in all Sony bodies, so it's well understood. And the losses compressed support for full-size RAW files is well understood, too.

Is it the reduced resolution "RAW" files (the ones that aren't actually RAW)?

There was a time when we had to wait months for RAW support for every new camera. I think I was waiting for over 4 months for one particular camera, back before 2010. So the claim that "no other camera seems to have had to wait this long" is far from true, historically.

It is only the past few years that things have sped up a lot - I got RAW support before the preordered camera arrived for the A9 III and A1 II - that was delightful.