Preview problem with Sony a6300 RAW files

[JAMelle]

Apparently PM doesn't recognize the file format of RAW files from the new Sony a6300 camera. It will only generate previews at 1616 x 1080 rather than the image size of 6000 x 4000. This make using magnification to check image sharpness virtually useless. Do I need to do something like change a setting somewhere or is this a pending "fix"?  Thanks
Alan Melle

[Kirk Baker]

Alan,

Apparently PM doesn't recognize the file format of RAW files from the new Sony a6300 camera. It will only generate previews at 1616 x 1080 rather than the image size of 6000 x 4000. This make using magnification to check image sharpness virtually useless. Do I need to do something like change a setting somewhere or is this a pending "fix"?  Thanks

PM will be showing the embedded JPEG preview within your RAW file.  It sounds like the preview is of low resolution.  There may be a setting in your camera to control the size and quality of the JPEG preview in the RAW files your camera produces.

Failing that, other options are to shoot RAW+JPEG, or to convert your RAW files to Adobe DNG files (with a full preview).

-Kirk

[annedi]

JAMelle -

Sony does not store a full size embedded JPG in the raw ARW file.
You must convert your raw ARW in an appropriate converter and then do a Save As JPG to get a full-size JPG.
IMHO, this is rather a pain. But that's the workaround.

When shooting RAW + JPG with my Sony a7R, I still get the small JPGs in-camera. You have to set Quality to JPG only at size Large to get a full-size JPG in-camera.

Hope this helps.