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Hi.

Is there any Risc OS software that can process .ARW (Sony RAW files) and convert them to a more common format, such as JPEG?

I've tried DPlngScan 1.33 but it doesn't look at them.

There are some online converters, but as I have 76 images to convert, and
the free converters restrict the numbers you can convert without paying,
I'd rather find a solution I can use on here (if there is one...)
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On 21 Dec 2025 as I do recall,
Brian Howlett wrote:

Is there any Risc OS software that can process .ARW (Sony RAW files) and convert them to a more common format, such as JPEG?

I have a program called rRaw by Anton Reiser and one called dcraw ported
by John-Mark Bell.

Neither appears to work with the test file at https://www.imagefilesize.com/sample/downloads/HD-1080x1920.raw
for what that is worth...
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On 21 Dec, Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

On 21 Dec 2025 as I do recall, Brian Howlett wrote:

Is there any Risc OS software that can process .ARW (Sony RAW files) and
convert them to a more common format, such as JPEG?

I have a program called rRaw by Anton Reiser and one called dcraw ported
by John-Mark Bell.

Neither appears to work with the test file at https://www.imagefilesize.com/sample/downloads/HD-1080x1920.raw
for what that is worth...

Thanks for the thoughts - I found rRAW 0.03 on my hard drive - now updated
to version 0.04, however, the thumbnail option works but when
double-clicking on an image the display is just a black rectangle, and
saving as JPEG just gives the same result.

I also appear to have dcraw, so I'll give that a go...

(Later) won't even run...

"Fatal signal received. Illegal instruction".

Ho hum...
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On 21 Dec, Brian Howlett wrote in message
<e44aeb8e5c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>:

I also appear to have dcraw, so I'll give that a go...

(Later) won't even run...

"Fatal signal received. Illegal instruction".

If that's the version from

http://www.thomas-milius-stade.de:8080/English/Computer/

then maybe drop Thomas an email? He's still active in the RISC OS world.
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On 21 Dec, Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

On 21 Dec, Brian Howlett wrote in message <e44aeb8e5c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>:

I also appear to have dcraw, so I'll give that a go...

(Later) won't even run...

"Fatal signal received. Illegal instruction".

If that's the version from

http://www.thomas-milius-stade.de:8080/English/Computer/

then maybe drop Thomas an email? He's still active in the RISC OS world.

Thanks Steve. I think it was supplied with this computer, so perhaps an
update is required. I'll take a look at Thomas's site.
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Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> haben Sie geschrieben:

On 21 Dec, Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

On 21 Dec, Brian Howlett wrote in message
<e44aeb8e5c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>:

I also appear to have dcraw, so I'll give that a go...

(Later) won't even run...

"Fatal signal received. Illegal instruction".

If that's the version from

http://www.thomas-milius-stade.de:8080/English/Computer/

then maybe drop Thomas an email? He's still active in the RISC OS world.

Thanks Steve. I think it was supplied with this computer, so perhaps an update is required. I'll take a look at Thomas's site.
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Every 4 seconds a woman has a baby. Our problem is to find this
woman and stop her.

There is a very old (and V0.01 alpha-stated) prog, called RawView (Raw
camera image file viewer), from Chris Gransden.
Could be found here:
https://www.cgransden.co.uk/downloads.html

Perhaps worth a try...

Greeting Jnrgen
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On 22 Dec, freeaak6677@freeaakmaaiil.dee wrote:

There is a very old (and V0.01 alpha-stated) prog, called RawView (Raw
camera image file viewer), from Chris Gransden.
Could be found here:
https://www.cgransden.co.uk/downloads.html

Perhaps worth a try...

Thanks for the suggestion, however it didn't recognise the files I have to convert.
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In message <2eabdd8e5c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>
Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:

Hi.

Is there any Risc OS software that can process .ARW (Sony RAW files) and convert them to a more common format, such as JPEG?

I've tried DPlngScan 1.33 but it doesn't look at them.

There are some online converters, but as I have 76 images to convert, and
the free converters restrict the numbers you can convert without paying,
I'd rather find a solution I can use on here (if there is one...)

Have you tried either of these sites?

https://www.freeconvert.com/arw-to-jpg

https://www.iloveimg.com/convert-to-jpg/raw-to-jpg/arw-to-jpg

The second link claims to be able to convert multiple files.
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On 29 Dec, Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you tried either of these sites?

https://www.freeconvert.com/arw-to-jpg

https://www.iloveimg.com/convert-to-jpg/raw-to-jpg/arw-to-jpg

The second link claims to be able to convert multiple files.

Both will do the job, but not in Iris. They also require subscription to
do all the files I need to convert.

Still looking for a RiscOS solution, but not holding my breath...
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In article <bd8c16935c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>,
Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:

On 29 Dec, Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you tried either of these sites?

https://www.freeconvert.com/arw-to-jpg

https://www.iloveimg.com/convert-to-jpg/raw-to-jpg/arw-to-jpg

The second link claims to be able to convert multiple files.

Both will do the job, but not in Iris. They also require subscription to
do all the files I need to convert.

Still looking for a RiscOS solution, but not holding my breath...

Sorry to intrude in this thread with an aside... A little thought that re-occurred to me when I read this posting.

Years ago it's a good job I didn't 'hold my breath' over things that RISC
OS didn't or can't do, that I required at that time.

I'd be a long time dead. :-)

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Acorn & RISC OS for 43 years and still
love using it for some things, but many years ago while using computers in
my business I realised, "Horses for courses" is the only way to go.

Even though I've been retired for quite a while now, I still use RISC OS
for a number of things, but swap OS (Windows) when needed.

Thus I don't get out of breath... ;-)
Dave
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Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

Still looking for a RiscOS solution, but not holding my breath...

Sorry to intrude in this thread with an aside... A little thought that re-occurred to me when I read this posting.

Years ago it's a good job I didn't 'hold my breath' over things that RISC
OS didn't or can't do, that I required at that time.

I'd be a long time dead. :-)

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Acorn & RISC OS for 43 years and still love using it for some things, but many years ago while using computers in
my business I realised, "Horses for courses" is the only way to go.

Even though I've been retired for quite a while now, I still use RISC OS
for a number of things, but swap OS (Windows) when needed.

Thus I don't get out of breath... ;-)

Although I do have a Windows 11 laptop, I very rarely switch it on these
days, other than to test something in VRPC. My other laptop that I tend
use more often runs Suse Linux(still not quite cut my Windows apron
strings yet!). Even then I tend to use my iPAD for most things I struggle
to do on RISC OS.

So for me, bring this back on to thread. I would switch across to one of
my other devices to convert the Sony RAW image files to something I could
then use on RISC OS.
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In message <mpro.t7n8n200cjqez1rze.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

On 21 Dec, Brian Howlett wrote in message
<e44aeb8e5c.BrianNews@brianhowlett.me.uk>:

I also appear to have dcraw, so I'll give that a go...

(Later) won't even run...

"Fatal signal received. Illegal instruction".

If that's the version from

http://www.thomas-milius-stade.de:8080/English/Computer/

then maybe drop Thomas an email? He's still active in the RISC OS world.

I have just successfully tested dcraw 9.06 (15/Feb/2025) which contains
sony metadata (ex DSC03969/raw or /arw)
The file cited by Harriet cannot be decoded, the test was also done under dcraw Rasbian .
dcraw -i filename/raw (Identify files without decoding them)
dcraw -e filename/raw (Extract embedded thumbnail image) I get a Jpeg
image.

Happy new year
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On 30 Dec, Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> wrote:

I have just successfully tested dcraw 9.06 (15/Feb/2025) which contains
sony metadata (ex DSC03969/raw or /arw)
The file cited by Harriet cannot be decoded, the test was also done under dcraw Rasbian .
dcraw -i filename/raw (Identify files without decoding them)
dcraw -e filename/raw (Extract embedded thumbnail image) I get a Jpeg
image.

Installed and tried that - the TIFF image I got from the first file came
out monochrome, and the extracted JPEG image was flipped 90#, and colours
were pretty washed out.

Meantime, I found a program on Linux called RawTherapee which extracted
the JPEGs I needed, and much better quality.

Happy new year

Ditto...
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