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newshound wrote:

When I bought the X-E1 a few years back I also had a new Macbook, and I
bought Affinity Photo for it. I had a play at raw processing but for
what I was doing, the JPEGs out of the camera were fine, all I seemed to
need was cropping, straightening, maybe a touch of fill light, and
Picasa does all that easily. (I use Picasa for managing my photo files
anyway).

Step forward a few years, I have some X-T3 raw images that need
tweaking, but Affinity won't open them. Evidently the T3 format is "too
new". A bit disappointing.

not really. there's always a lag from when a new camera appears and
when apps support its raw files. ask affinity to add it. it's in their
best interest to do so and likely already in progress.

Never mind, download X Raw Studio and see what it will do. I have my
files for processing on a NAS drive so that I can easily access them
from PC or Mac. But no, X Raw Studio has no "Network" option in the file
manager,

no need.

I can only open the physical drives on the PC.

all drives are physical.

what you mean are directly attached drives versus network volumes.

some apps may restrict access to network volumes because it doesn't
support multiple users. or it could just be a poorly written app, of
which there are many.

Too many software developers seem not to live in the real world.

they definitely do, except that a lot of them write ****ty apps, often
forcing the user to jump through hoops to do a simple task.

as long as users keep buying their ****ty apps and refuse to switch to
better ones, those developers have zero motivation to improve anything.

I don't really want to do much PP, maybe just a bit on the occasional
(and rare) really good shot. Can't justify PS or LR costs or learning
curve. At least Affinity was relatively cheap.

so is photoshop. in fact, it's approximately the same price.