Hello! My sister sent me some images on the .RW2 format, does anyone know any programs I should use to easily open/covert them to jpeg? Using Linux Mint if that helps.

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  • Gormadt
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    1324 days ago

    Darktable can be used for that as .RW2 files are “raw” pictures.

    Also Darktable is a damn good image editing software for raw files.

    • @[email protected]
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      924 days ago

      Darktable is fantastic, but the learning curve is steep for great results. It took us months to get comfortable with it after using Capture One, Lightroom, Photoshop/ACR. It’s different. Our first efforts looked like crap.

      For someone processing just a few files I think RawTherapee is probably easier and likely to give better results with limited effort.

  • the_weez
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    524 days ago

    My Panasonic camera makes RW2 files for raw photos, I imagine most raw photo editors will open and convert them fine. I use darktable.