Does Raw Therapee support Canon R5 CR3 files? If not, then when?

Without taking any stance on patent infringement and such, just for information:

  • there are different cr3 file formats (meaning, the container format is the same, but the data can be compressed in different ways)
  • libraw can decode some of them, and the relevant code was ported (ie. copied, as the license allows it) to RT and ART
  • the metadata handling in RT and ART is not done through libraw but through other libraries
  • neither the internal rtexif lib nor exiv2 support cr3 so RT lacks metadata support for the format
  • exiftool does support the format, and ART takes advantage of it
  • RT might also lack some other info (raw crop, black levels…) to properly render cr3 files from the R5: this info is model-specific so it’s not surprising that cr3 works for some cameras and not for others
  • ART has such info

TL;DR: ART supports the R5 just fine, as far as I know (except for some compressed options for which there is no open source decoder available yet)

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