Most raw image file formats store information sensed according to the geometry of the sensor's individual photo-receptive elements (sometimes called pixels) rather than points in the expected final image: sensors with hexagonal element displacement, for example, record information for each of their hexagonally-displaced cells, which a decoding software will eventually transform into the rectangular geometry during "digital developing". Raw image formats are intended to capture the radiometric characteristics of the scene, that is, physical information about the light intensity and color of the scene, at the best of the camera sensor's performance. The purpose of raw image formats is to save, with minimum loss of information, data obtained from the sensor. Unlike physical film after development, the Raw file preserves the information captured at the time of exposure. Like undeveloped photographic film, a raw digital image may have a wider dynamic range or color gamut than the developed film or print. (With exposed film, development is a single event that physically transforms the unexposed film irreversibly.) Rather, the Raw datasets are more like exposed but undeveloped film which can be converted (electronically developed) in a non-destructive manner multiple times in observable, reversible steps to reach a visually desired image. Raw image files are sometimes incorrectly described as "digital negatives", but neither are they negatives nor do the unprocessed files constitute visible images.
Try watching some of the tutorial vidoes. It is hard for me to tell what you are doing. There is no dragging involved.Ĭapture One does allow some dragging and dropping of files, but I don't think that is how it works for importing images. You can browse to your camera or SD card and all the files there will show and then either select those you want to import or import them all.
So you have Capture One open and you click Import and a window opens to select the files to import. I am not sure what you are doing by dragging files or what windows you are referring to. But cannot edit (greyed bars) Are you saying I have it in Photo Gallery mode? What am I supposed to do to import them into Capture One instead? I click Import Images and then drag it from the right window to the left window. I have a A6000 camera which is compatible with Capture One 10.0. It only imports the jpgs and not the ARW files. I don't know if that one is for Sony or not. I use Photo Gallery for JPEGS and Capture One for ARWs. You will need to disable that and import them into Capture One instead. I am guessing that you probably imported them into Photo Gallery first.
Have you installed the Sony RAW Driver for Windows? You can download it from Sony's eSupport page for your camera model.Ĭapture One for Sony only supports editing files directly from supported Sony cameras. I read that Windows Live Photo Gallery can read ARW files so I tried that however, it only read the jpg files. The bars are all greyed out and I cannot figure out why. I got a copy of Capture One, but for some reason, it will not let me edit the pictures.
What free programs can read/import ARW files without a convertor? I tried GIMP but that only reads jpg.