Keywords / Metadata on RAW+JPG

I shoot in RAW+JPG mode with my camera. I love the fact that Lr will show me the Raw files and the duplicate .Jpg's as 1 image. However I may have to turn on the "Treat .jpg's as separate files" button. When I add keywords to the .raw file, I need Lr to also apply that keyword to the duplicate .jpg. Is there a setting somewhere for this? I have the "Automatically write changes into XMP" checked...
Thanks
-Chris

This is the exact question. I just found thin in the forum & I'm going to keep searching but I'd like to ask if anybody knows if this has been addressed since late November.
I too shoot RAW + JPEG. I love that I only have to see one of them in LR. But, I want both files to be updated with the keywords I assign when I do "metadata save to file".
I'll keep searching the forums. If I find nothing I'll add it to the fearture request forum.
Thanks

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Can't assign keyword to my raw (.nef) files in Bridge cs4

I have no problems assigning the keywords on my list onto my .jpg files (by selecting the file, and then check the box on the left of any keyword on the keyword list), but when I try to do the same to my .nef (raw) files, the message "The file "xxx.nef" cannot store xmp metadata. No changes will occur." comes up, and won't let me add the keywords.
I believe that metadata (including keywords) for this type of files in Bridge is stored in sidecar xmp files in order not to alter anything in the original file, but if that is the case, is there a way that I can add keywords/ metadata into the sidecar xmp files in Bridge?
Thanks in advance!

As a Canon user I have no experience with NEF files but also can't recall problems with not writing metadata to it in Bridge.
Can you provide more details on how you handle these files. Are they not locked, and not stored on read only storage? or are they just plain NEF files imported from your CF card to the computer?
Have you also tried to convert the NEF to DNG files using the free Adobe DNG Converter?
Metadata is stored in the XMP data inside the file itself and should also stay there after converting to other file formats like tiff or jpg. The data for changes made in ACR are stored in a sidecar XMP file if you have set the preferences for it in Bridge.

How to handle RAW+JPG?

Hi guys,
Just downloaded LR4 trial, and there is something I can't quite figure out.
I have a lot of RAW+JPG pictures (shot as RAW+JPG or previously converted from RAW to JPG with other programs), when importing them to Lightroom, I can choose to treat them as the same picture or as separate pictures.
At first glance, they should of cause be treated as the same picture (because they are the same picture), and they do indeed appear as "RAW+JPG" in LR, but how do I:
- View the JPG? (not critical, but it would be nice to be able to compare the JPG with the LR results)
- Add metadata (tags, title, caption, etc.) to the JPG file and not just the RAW file? (I have enabled "write metadata to file")
If treated as separate pictures, they behave as one would expect, but it is not that convenient to have two of the same pictures side-by-side.
- Can I auto-stack RAWs and JPGs?
- Can I write metadata (tags, title, caption, etc.) to the entire stack in one go?
And please don't give me the same answer, I keep reading over and over again, when other people ask the same question: "Why would you have RAW and JPG of the same image?" That is not the question, but I will answer it anyway :-)
1. I need JPG versions of my pictures for e-mail, web, viewing on my TV etc.
2. I REALLY don't want to be dependent on LR in the future. If I have spend hours and hours fine tuning my pictures, and only have them saved as RAW, I would need LR till the day I die. And it doesn't end there, my kids, my grand kids and so on, would also need LR to view the pictures (at lease in the quality I would like them to be viewed).
~Frank

That was also my feeling, that Lightroom's support for such is pretty little.
Because it is not LR's concept.
Frank,
what you could do in order to further make up your mind to which extent LR might suit you:
Use an alternative picture viewer (e.g. Irfanview) to compare JPGs.
Copy your existing JPGs to a folder, but do not import them into LR (that means do not LR have creating pointers to them and records in the catalog-database).
Import your raws into LR (that means you need to have some safe storage space for the image files themselves), and do your developments there. When you think you are ready, export** them as full-sized JPGs, renamed e.g. by a suffix -LR, into your JPG-folders. Do not add such export to your LR catalog.
Use the alternative picture viewer to compare how you did, compared to your camera's auto-conversion.
To further ease your mind regarding dependancy on LR: most of your develop settings can be written back to the raw file's xmp-part (that is a sidecar-file for a proprietary raw format such as Nikon's .NEF or Canon's .CR2, or embedded for a DNG, PSD or TIFF).
This xmp can be read by many other other programs.
So you would have your raws enriched.
Plus you could decide to store your exported JPGs *forever*.
Pretty independant from Lightroom, no?
Should you want to ultimately rely on raw-conversion results, I would go for different software, e.g. DxO.
Cornelia
**exporting means: LR is making use of its records as rendering instructions and writes a completely new file, in the format you specify for this export, e.g. JPG.
LR is a database, that contains records ABOUT images. It reads from them, it writes to their xmp-part if tell it to do so (choice is continuously or upon separate command for selected images), it can write other output, e.g. a PDF working as a slide show, a web gallery, a print, a book.

Comparing RAW vs. jpg in Aperture When Shooting RAW + jpg

I just started shooting RAW + jpg with a brand new camera. I imported these photos into Aperture. The photos all have jpg as the master with the associated Badge indicating there is also a RAW version. Changing each Badge, I can toggle between the jpg and the RAW versions.
However, I would like to compare both versions (side by side). If I don’t like the jpeg version, I’ll post process using the RAW version. How can I do this in Aperture? Ideally, I would like to have these respective RAW and jpg versions of each photo in a single Stack to facilitate comparison.

Sven Erik wrote:
Excellent! However, do you know I can create separate masters after I've already imported?
You can do this either one at a time or in multiple selection:
1 - Select image(s) you want to see both JPEG and RAW masters for (let's say you have the JPEG set as master by default).
2 - Photos menu > Set RAW as Master (this switches JPEG master to RAW master)
3 - With image(s) still selected: 'Photos menu > New version from master'
4 - You now have two RAW versions of each image (the original master version and a new version)
5 - Select all original versions and then: 'Photos menu > Set JPEG as Master'
6 - You should now have a JPEG master and a RAW version of each image (the same as having a JPEG and RAW master side by side). The only difference is that the RAW will have '-version #' after the image name.
7 - You can run a batch change via 'Metadata menu > Batch change...' and use the Version Name Format drop-down / Edit function to change the name on the new masters (I sometimes use the 'Master File Name' and remove all other items from the format field, which leaves the same master name and the file extension).
I use the 'Both (JPEG as Master)' in Tony's screenshot and then just create a RAW version if the JPEG does not meet my needs for some reason.

Duplicate (sidecar) RAW & JPG files in Organiser

Hello,
I usually store both RAW and a small JPG file for each photo I take using a Canon EOS 7D. When these are imported into Lightroom 4.4, Lightroom only shows one image, reporting that the associated JPG is a 'sidecar' image. When imported into Photoshop Elements 11 Organiser both photos are displayed i.e. every single photo is duplicated.
How do I configure Photoshop Elements 11 Organiser to only show one photo for each RAW/JPG set?
Thanks in advance,
David.

Lightroom and the Organizer have something in common : they do not contain picture files. They only store the information about where the files are physically stored. They are a list of those paths (locations). Raws and jpegs of the same shot are two different picture files. So, you can't speak about duplication from that point of view.
What Lightroom and the Organizer don't have in common is the way they deal with the 'duos' of raw and jpeg files. At the import stage, the Organizer always considers the files as distinct and imports both of them as described by 99jon. LR recognizes the fact that both files are two variants from a single shot and offers a choice of how to import : ignore the jpeg or consider ist as a kind of 'sidecar' file.
How to use the organizer so that it shows only one thumbnail once they have been imported ? That's possible if you use the visual similarity search : you can choose to automatically suggest photo stacks just after the import stage. Your files will be stacked and you'll see only one photo in the browsing space. You can collapse stacks or expand them in the browsing space. After stacking, any organizing task such as rating, keywording will be applied to both files much like in real version sets.
I don't think that you really need to shoot raw + jpeg most of the time.
It may be useful when you are getting acquainted with raw processing.
It may be to have an instant way to display the pictures on your card when you have no computer at hand. In that case, deleting the jpegs from catalog just after the import into the catalog is the quickest and simplest solution.
For viewing the raw pictures on your computer without Elements, it may be useful to have another free software able to show the thumbnails of raw files (faststone, xnview...)
Also, if shooting raw only, it's easy to export a (temporary) ad hoc jpeg version of your import batch from the Organizer to share with friends. It's best done after culling and rating and doing some quick keywording.

How to save metadatas in RAW files (and not in external .XMP sidecar file)

Hello,
I would like to save metadatas (for example keywords) inside the RAW files, and not in external .XMP sidecar file.
How to do this in Lightroom ?
Thanks
Josh
PS: is XMP a file format (= .XMP files) or a metadata format that can be embedded either in a .XMP sidecar file or in the RAW itself ?

MarvinFoster wrote:
It's a horridly named catalog setting since if you are using DNG you don't have XMP files but it does the same thing, it updates the dng with the catalog settings.
XMP does not mean XMP FILES per se.
XMP is a metadata format/standard. so it´s not horrible named but simply missunderstood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
XMP can be used in several file formats such as PDF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, GIF, PNG, HTML, TIFF, Adobe Illustrator, PSD, MP3, MP4, Audio Video Interleave, WAV, RF64, Audio Interchange File Format, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, and proposed for DjVu. In a typical edited JPEG file, XMP information is typically included alongside Exif and IPTC Information Interchange Model data.

Script to automatically make a stack with a RAW+jpg pair of images

While on my last trip, I accidently setup my camera to take Raw + small jpg. No big deal, that isn't too much memory, so I didn't really worry about it. When I got home, the jpg files were copied to my hard drive along with the raw files. So, I went to delete the jpgs and I realized something. Bridge runs very fast when it's drawing thumbnails and previews of small jpg images. I got to thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to make a script that would take your raw+jpg from the camera and convert each pair into a stack with the jpg on top. This would enable bridge to run much more quickly since it wouldn't need to render all those raw image thumbs and previews.
Hmmm....now where to start....I looked around at the scripting language for photoshop. since I have written a little bit of javascript, I thought I would start there, but I can't find where the stack property is kept in metadata or the DOM.
Any ideas of where I might turn from here?

Version with some changes. Try fix some bug. Try increase speed. If you found some bug or make changes or fix, please post it to this forum. -== [start of script] ==-- /////////////////// /// Name: Auto stacking files /// Description: This script enable auto stacking files by name /// Author: Tyzhnenko Dmitry /// E-mail: [email protected] /// Version: 0.32 /////////////////// /* @@@START_XML@@@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ScriptInfo xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en_US"> <dc:title>Auto stacking files</dc:title> <dc:description>This script enable auto stacing files by name function</dc:description> </ScriptInfo> @@@END_XML@@@ */ function AutomaticStackingFiles() { /** The context in which this snippet can run; Bridge must be running. @type String */ this.requiredContext = "\tAdobe Bridge CS3 must be running.\n\tExecute against Bridge CS3 as the Target.\n"; $.level = 1; // Debugging level this.version = "0.32"; this.author = "Tyzhenenko Dmitry"; /** The unique identifier for the new menu item command @type String */ //this.menuID = "AutoStackFiles"; this.menuCommandID = "GoAutoStackingFiles"; } function RunAutoStacking() { var doc = app.document; var thumb = doc.thumbnail; var vthumb = doc.visibleThumbnails; var currSort = doc.sorts; function StackPhoto() { doc.chooseMenuItem('submenu/Stack'); doc.chooseMenuItem('StackGroup'); } function CollapseStacks() { doc.chooseMenuItem('submenu/Stack'); doc.chooseMenuItem('CollapseAllStacks'); } function getFileExt( t) { var dot = t.name.lastIndexOf ('.'); return t.name.substr(dot,t.name.length); } function getFileName( t) { var dot = t.name.lastIndexOf ('.'); return t.name.substr(0, dot); } CollapseStacks(); var SortObj = {}; SortObj.name = "name"; SortObj.type = "string"; SortObj.reverse = false; var SortsArray = []; SortsArray.push(SortObj); doc.sorts = SortsArray; for (var len = 0; len < vthumb.length; len++ ) { doc.deselectAll(); doc.select(vthumb[len]); doc.reveal(vthumb[len]); for ( var k = len+1; k < vthumb.length; k++ ) { //alert(k); if ( getFileName( vthumb[len] ) == getFileName( vthumb[k]) ) doc.select(vthumb[k]); else { if (doc.selectionLength > 1) StackPhoto(); break; } if (k == vthumb.length-1) { if (doc.selectionLength > 1) StackPhoto(); } //if (doc.selectionLength > 1) // StackPhoto(); } //delete vthumb; //var //vthumb = @doc.visibleThumbnails; } doc.sorts = currSort; doc.reveal(doc.visibleThumbnails[0]); delete currSort; delete vthumb; delete thumb; delete doc; } AutomaticStackingFiles.prototype.run = function() { var retval = true; if(!this.canRun()) { retval = false; return retval; } //app.document.chooseMenuItem('submenu/Stack'); var AutoStackCommand = new MenuElement("command", "Auto stacking", "at the beginning of submenu/Stack", ); AutoStackCommand.onSelect = function(m) { //alert('start'); RunAutoStacking(); //alert('stop'); } } AutomaticStackingFiles.prototype.canRun = function() { // Must run in Bridge if(BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge") { // Stop the menu element from being added again if the snippet has already run if(MenuElement.find(this.menuCommandID)) { $.writeln("ERROR:: Menu element from AutoStackFiles already exists!\nRestart Bridge to run this snippet again."); return false; } return true; } // Fail if these preconditions are not met. // Bridge must be running, // The menu must not already exist. $.writeln("ERROR:: Cannot run AutomaticStackingFiles"); $.writeln(this.requiredContext); return false; } if(typeof(AutomaticStackingFiles_unitTest) == "undefined") { new AutomaticStackingFiles().run(); } -== [end of script] ==--

RAW+JPG renaming/deleting workflow broken?

I tried to shoot RAW + JPG.
LR show only the NEF files [RAW] and uses the JPGs as a "sidecar".
if I rename teh NEF the JPG gets renamed with the same filename and the proper different extension.
the problem is when I delete the rejected NEF files - the corresponding/relative JPGs don't get deleted as well
and I need to do it manually in the finder outside of LR,
am i doing something wrong? I find this behavior inconsistent and it could be annoying if I need to do that with many files at once.
I can always download the images from teh camera to TEMP download folder - move the good photos to a different folder and empty the JPGs that have not deleted.
a bit of a cumbersome workflow...
stefano
stefpix dot com
yesterday's photos
http://tinyurl.com/27fazg
or
http://picasaweb.google.com/stefpix/BedstuyFlatbushMiniHaiti300320072309/photo#s5047923753 755028194

Amazing, so it's actually intentionally 'broken'. At the very very least, mentioning this in the manual would have been nice...(or did I miss it?) I can see where they're coming from as seen from a *particular* workflow perspective, but they are making some pretty big assumptions along the way, all of which can be challenged.
Assumption (1): RAW and JPG files with the same name are *always* both created in the camera.
- I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I have sometimes saved rendered JPGs (from RawShooter) alongside my RAW files. The upcoming(?) RawShooter settings conversion utility will not give the exact same results, so I'd like to keep the JPGs in my library.
Assumption (2): The JPG is always inferior to the Lightroom-rendered RAW.
- Not true. Sometimes the camera vendors employ some sophisticated wizardry to their JPGs that can sometimes yield satisfying final results or a good reference for raw editing. I suspect this holds even more for the newer batch of SLRs that supports 'in-camera developing', applying proprietary coloring effects, etc to the rendered JPG.
Assumption (3): People get horribly confused when they see *choose* to shoot RAW+JPG and actually see two files.
- Well, I'm probably not the target market, since I'm one of those 'organized' photographers, but ok. If I have chosen to create two files that every other imaging program considers to be different, I have consciously done so, and I do not get confused if I see different files. In fact, I *expect* all my files to show up in Lightroom. Of course having neat options to hide either type of files is a plus.
As for suggestions to improve this in future versions, I'd say:
* Make it an option (selected by default) to not import sidecar JPGs and use them only for preview. [mentioned in Podcast]
* Implement auto-stacking for files with the same name. [mentioned in Podcast]
* Even better, allow for auto-stacking with similar names (using a suffix, like '-') and images that were shot at the same time. See also http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc34b40/1
* Implement a command to sort the images in all stacks in the current view. This could be used to place all RAWs or JPGs on top.
* Implement a synchronization feature that synchronizes (selected) keywords and collections across stacks. [deals with mentioned keyword problem]
* As an alternative to all stack-based options above, simply implement a viewing filter to only show files of a certain type within the currently selected category. This way, people can easily remove all JPGs from view.
Cheers,
Simon

RAW + JPG

I just started shooting RAW and imported 152 RAW + JPG today. Only the RAW are showing in Aperture. Any way to make both show up??? I drilled down in the library and the JPGs are there ...
thanks in advance for any help ...

From my website www.aperturetricks.com.
"Ben Long sent me a great script to work with RAW+JPEG imports and I posted that last week. But then several of you sent me emails suggesting additional support for RAW existed and I added that information to my own research and want to share that with you now.
Like others, I wish the RAW+JPEG workflow were better, but there’s more support than I think most people realize:
1. Aperture actually DOES import RAW+JPEG. It sees both files and brings them both into the Library. By default it only displays the RAW image. To see the JPEG too, just select any image and press Option-J, (That’s the keyboard shortcut for New Version from Master JPEG.) Now-the RAW AND the JPEG appear together in a stack. If you make the JPEG the “pick” of the stack, then you can collapse the stack and see only the JPEG.
2. Once you have both the RAW and the JPEG, you will want to be able to tell which is which. Aperture CAN (despite complaints from some reviewers who just don’t know how to properly use the software) display full filenames and file extensions You need to set up the metadata display options correctly.
- Create a new Metadata set using the Action menu on the metadata inspector.
- Click the “Other” button at the bottom of the inspector and turn on File Name as the only field to be displayed for this new set.
- Open View > View Options and set either Set number 1 or Set number 2 in either the Viewer or Browser to display your new metdata set, consisting of File Name.
Now you can toggle full filenames (With extensions) on or off the images in the Viewer or on thumbnails in the browser.
You could also just modify any existing metadta set to accomplish this by replacing the “Version Name” field with the “File Name” field."
Good luck,
Scott Bourne

How do I transfer RAW+jpg to cloud storage under iOS 8?

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How can I transfer the photos to the Cloud to free up some space?
iCloud does not store photos long term. You can share your photos to your Photo Stream to transfer them, but you need to download them on another device, before you delete them from your iPhone.
Back them up on a computer, before you delete them from your iPhone.
For example, by:
Import photos directly into iPhoto or Aperture on your computer.
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Regards

Can no longer write metadata to Raw files

My team an d I are working in Photoshop CS5, we write metadata to jpegs and Raw files- saving to Raw database not as sidecar .xmp files. We are no longer able to save the metadata to Raw files. There is no error message, the data writes like normal and the user who writes the metadata can see it but when you open in another computer the metadata fields are empty, however the jpegs do have the new metadata. Was there a setting change at some point? This has been going on for a couple months and I cannot find an answer anywhere. Again, we batch write to RAW+Jpeg, the jpeg files save the metadata but the Raw files look like the data saved but is not visible on any computer other thant he one that added the new metadata. This is occurring on multiple computers, both Mac and PC.

TimVasilovic wrote:
I understand the process you are describing, In the past I have been able to embed metadata to a Raw file, move it to a server, pick that file up on another computer and see the metadata without need of the .xmp sidecar. Is the ability to embed no longer supported by Photoshop? Since this issue began we have taken to doing all our metadata editing in PhotoMechanic, which embeds without creating a sidecar. If Photoshop is pushing people to create sidecar .xmp files only for writing metadata to Raw files I will probabaly move fully to PhotoMechanic because using sidecars has proven tricky in the past with how our files get moved around.
If using Adobe Camera Raw on camera raw file you either have an XMP sidecar file created or the data is stored in a database. Which happens it is your option in Edit/camera raw. If you use ACR and edit a jpeg it does not create a distinct XMP file but it is also not directly written to the image either. One can still delete the edits in Bridge with Edit/develp settings.
If you use a DNG the metadata is written to the image. Not sure what process Photo Mechanic uses.
It appears to be a permission problem as other than CS6 Bridge is now 64 bit and has a new cache method there are no changes in how it handles metadata.

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I usually take photos in two formats: Raw + JPG, however when I try to download to Aperture, only Raw files are downloaded, is this normal? where should be adjusted to extract both formats into Aperture?
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Ed

This depends on if you're using Aperture 2 or Aperture 3. In 2, there are some preference settings about imports, but I don't recall the details. In 3, there's a brick of import options called Raw+JPEG. There, you can select 5 options. One of those options will import only the raw files. The one that imports both, but sets the raw as master will look similar, in Aperture, except you'll have the option to switch to the JPEG master for that image, temporarily or otherwise, if you later wish. There's a pair of options that work the same way as those two, but favour JPEGs over raws. And there's an option to import both, setting both as masters - with that, you'll see a version based on each master for every shot you've taken, doubling the apparent number of photos.

How to get Keyword metadata from PDF's ?

Hi,
First of all apologies for perhaps stupid questions that I'm asking as I'm a AppleScript novice
What I'm trying to do is to convert PDF documents to image files (.png or .jpeg), this I can easily accomplish using the Automators "Render PDF Pages as Images" action.
The difficulty comes from that I also want to rename the generated image files (or PDF's before converting them to images) using part of the data that is contained in each PDF's Keywords metadata and for this I think I need to do some AppleScript coding (need to get and parse the Keyword metadata string for each PDF and then use the parsed data to rename files). Any ideas, hints or tips how this should be done using AppleScript ? (any websites / blogs where this kind of processing has been done ?)
Appreciate a lot if you can help in this,
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Typing the following two lines in the Script Editor should list the metadata attributes for the choosen file:
set F to choose file with prompt "Choose a PDF file:" of type "PDF "
do shell script "mdls" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of F
For more information on "mdls", open the Terminal window and just type “man mdls” (and return).
Maybe you might also use the following AppleScript statement in case there were some keywords in the Spotlight comments field of the file:
tell application "Finder" to return comment of F
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PSE wish list - Auto stacking RAW + JPGs

I'm using PSE V10 and have a 'wish list' item for suggested improvements to the program.
A feature that would be extremely valuable to many users would be the ability to auto stack photos where there are the RAW + JPG images present in the Catalog. The JPG would end up on top of the stack.
This can be done manually but is tedious when there are many photos to deal with. Failing an automatic feature a single action shortcut to access the 'Stack | Stack selected photos' command would be useful.
a forum discussion on this topic is here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4585792#4585792

As reported above I THOUGHT I'd found a shortcut suitable for stacking a JPG over a RAW.
However, the stack command in the main menu, which has the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+S will stack the RAW over the JPG whenever the RAW thumbnail is ahead of the JPG in the Catalog. I want the reverse to happen.
I found I can get the JPG to stack over a RAW, if the RAW appears before the JPG, by selecting the RAW first then with the Ctrl button down select the JPG. Then using 'Stack | Stack selected photos' in the mouse right click menu. However, this fails when using Ctrl+Alt+S whenever the RAW is listed before the JPG. Am I missing something?

Raw imports fail if shooting in RAW+JPG

I've got a canon Xsi and set it to record RAW+JPG for some testing. I installed 10.5.4 which claimed to support RAW for the camera. But I could never get any of the images to import.
I've now figured out what is going on. I was using the USB cable to plug into the camera which uses the Image Capture framework to copy the images to the computer. There is a bug in the image capture framework that it always uses the size of the JPG file when it copies the file over, even when copying the RAW file. This has the effect of truncating the RAW file, causing the RAW conversion to fail.
To work around this problem, use a card reader that causes the card to mount as a disk drive. You'll then get the whole RAW file and the image will import properly.
I've filed a bug.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Also if you just shoot RAW I believe iPhoto will import correctly from the camera. Since iPhoto creates a jpg file for each raw that is imported you will still have both types of files in iPhoto. Since I don't shoot raw I don't know if there's any difference between the jpg created by the camera and the one created by iPhoto when importing RAW only. If you get a chance to test it out and report that would be of interest to others. Thanks for the feedback.
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