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Panasonic G9 file reading

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  • Benjamin Liddle
    While we don't comment on future product development, you're more than welcome to request support for the Panasonic G9 via a case, via the link in my profile.
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  • Jonathan Hawkins
    Thanks ben_US. I have raised a query as you suggest out of interest but would still be interested if anyone has experience of how long in general this process takes.

    Jonathan
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  • Gustavo Ferlizi
    [quote="jonhawkins" wrote:
    Thanks ben_US. I have raised a query as you suggest out of interest but would still be interested if anyone has experience of how long in general this process takes.

    Jonathan

    You're SOL.

    From basic research I can see that most cameras for which interest was shown, happen to be supported within 2-3 months from the camera's shipping date.

    You can also find that the G8 support was included in an update about 3 months after it's release.

    Considering that the G9 is due for mid January, you'd probably be looking into April.
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  • Eric Nepean
    [quote="jonhawkins" wrote:
    I have just downloaded a couple of files off the internet from the new Panasonic G9, a standard file and one of the new High Resolution files to see what they look like. Neither will open in CO 10 though appear as RW2 files which can be opened when from a previous Panasonic camera. I assume that there are some differences in the file format so was wondering how long PhaseOne normally take to bring out an update that will allow the files to be opened.


    I discovered a trick way back when I had a G1 and CO wasn't supporting it yet.

    If you open a Panasonic RW2 file with a hex editor like "010 Editor" or "wxHex Editor", near the beginning of the file you will find two places where the name of the camera is present, like this: Panasonic DMC-GX7

    I found that if you edit the camera name and change it to the name of a camera that is already supported, then Capture One will try to open the file. You should be carefull to replace characters, not add or delete them.

    In that case I believe I replaced "GM1" with "G5 ", and then Capture One had no trouble opening the RW2 file.

    You do this at your own risk. I reccomend that you use an empty catalog or session for this. If the file contains some new coding, Capture One may do something unpredictable, perhaps even crash.
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  • Eric Nepean
    I would like to add that if you have a Panasonic camera you may not find yourself particularly well supported in Capture One.

    For example, the Metedata view for JPEGs does not report the lens name, which is actually quite inconvient if you have several lenses, with overlapping ranges of focal length. I've been asking Capture One to show the Lens Name for JPEGs since 11/2015 but to no avail. They did fix the RAW but not JPEG. Now, when I raise a ticket they they agree that it's a known problem, it's on the bug list, and close the ticket.

    Exif info that's missing for JPEG Images
    • Serial
    • Firmware
    • Lens Name
    • Flash Compensation
    • Drive Mode
    • White Balance
    • Camera SW

    Exif info that's missing for RAW images
    • Serial
    • Firmware
    • Camera SW
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  • Jonathan Hawkins
    [quote="gusferlizi" wrote:


    From basic research I can see that most cameras for which interest was shown, happen to be supported within 2-3 months from the camera's shipping date.


    Patience is likely to be required! Thanks for the info.

    Jonathan
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  • Jonathan Hawkins
    [quote="Eric Nepean" wrote:
    I would like to add that if you have a Panasonic camera you may not find yourself particularly well supported in Capture One.


    Eric,

    I am well into Panasonic so will stick with it. A long term user of Lightroom, I got dissatisfied with it and tried Capture One, have not used LR since! Hopefully things will change over time. I only take RAW so do not miss too much of the Exif data.

    I might try your trick for getting Capture One to read the file from one of the G9 files I downloaded to see if it works.

    Thanks for your replies, very helpful.

    Jonathan
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  • Gustavo Ferlizi
    Good call on the hex editor!

    It's worth a try. 😊
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  • Eric Nepean
    I downloaded a G9 RAW file, with wxHEX Editor I replaced "G9 " with "GH5" in two places (Search for "Pana") and begorra, COP10 opened the file.
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  • Jonathan Hawkins
    [quote="Eric Nepean" wrote:
    I downloaded a G9 RAW file, with wxHEX Editor I replaced "G9 " with "GH5" in two places (Search for "Pana") and begorra, COP10 opened the file.


    Interesting. I have tried doing the same but get a corrupted file. You can just see the image outline but mainly just a sea of coloured dots!
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  • Gustavo Ferlizi
    [quote="jonhawkins" wrote:
    [quote="Eric Nepean" wrote:
    I downloaded a G9 RAW file, with wxHEX Editor I replaced "G9 " with "GH5" in two places (Search for "Pana") and begorra, COP10 opened the file.


    Interesting. I have tried doing the same but get a corrupted file. You can just see the image outline but mainly just a sea of coloured dots!


    That could be the OpenCL engine. Try to turn Hardware Acceleration to Never.

    Also, I would not add any space or character when swapping hexadecimal values. Try simply changing to "G8"
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  • Matt Coats
    @gusferlizi

    FYI you avatar is considered a racist symbol.
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  • Robert Farhi
    [quote="Matt32" wrote:
    @gusferlizi

    FYI you avatar is considered a racist symbol.


    Because it is a frog and that French people are sometimes treated as "frogs" by other people ?
    FYI, I am French 😊
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  • John Doe
    [quote="Matt32" wrote:
    @gusferlizi

    FYI you avatar is considered a racist symbol.

    Not necessarily : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ti-semitic
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  • Gustavo Ferlizi
    [quote="Matt32" wrote:
    @gusferlizi

    FYI you avatar is considered a racist symbol.


    Considered racist by the very evil and disingenuous people the meme seeks to expose.
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  • Charlie_Basche
    Replacing the camera model in Panasonic's RW2 files works well for me. Just make sure to use a tool that can deal with binary files.
    See my post for the Panasonic FZ300:
    This camera was released in 2015 to replace the FZ200. Still not supported in CO 11.
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