It is 2025. Why oh why is PL 8 not supporting Apple Linear DNG (ProMax RAW).
Yes it is not a “Camera”, but it is used by millions of people around the world. Why are you still unwilling or unable to support this format? I do not want to save images as JPGS just so I can edit in PL8… Please stop chasing the latest pro camera modules and write one that will work for the millions of us who shoot with our phones when we do not want to haul around 20lbs of DSLR gear!
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Hello, etron. DxO no longer responds directly to inquiries like this, but does monitor the forum in some way. Hopefully they will see your comment. You could also add your vote to an existing feature request and post in any old topic to bump it to the top of the list of latest topics. The list of already existing discussions is extensive:
https://forum.dxo.com/search?q=support%20phone%20dng%20%23dxo-photolab%3Afeature-requests
Please vote here :
There is also an annual tradition of explaining that asking for “DNG support” is like asking your local convenience store to please stock “remedies”. At least @etron is being explicit here.
But a less frequent tradition is explaining that, despite the name, ProMax RAW is not actually a RAW format.
DxO specialise in decoding Bayer (and X-Trans) sensor dumps by means of careful profiling of the cameras in conjunction with specific lenses. While the iPhone sensors are undoubtedly Bayer matrices, what you get in a ProMax RAW file is not a sensor dump. It can’t be. You get an already-processed sensor capture, or potentially a fusion of multiple captures from multiple sensors, fully decoded to an RGB colour space.
I find it highly unlikely that DxO would spend time on what amounts to a competitor to TIFF (at least as far as they are concerned).
Asking for “DNG support” of any kind (other than what is already provided to support DxO’s own functions) is asking DxO to turn PhotoLab into ‘just another photo editor’. I really don’t think they want to do that. Even if they did, all I expect you’d get would be the greater colour depth. I can’t see in a million years they’d support depth maps or any other data in ProMax RAW. If you just want the colour depth, you have the option to convert it to a 16-bit TIFF, which PhotoLab will edit.
As an aside, now that DeepPRIME algorithms actually perform very well on modern hardware, the whole need for DxO’s own DNG exports is, I think, much lessened. Early on, they were an option to perform the denoise step first before working on a nice clean image with the other tools. That need is largely obsolete now.