RAW Assets¶
Apple ProRAW/ProRes¶
Apple supports shooting stills and videos in DNG format and
they can be downloaded by icloudpd as any other supported format.
Imported RAW images¶
Added in version 1.19.0.
RAW images from third party cameras can be imported into Apple Photos or uploaded to iCloud.com.
These type of assets can also be downloaded by icloudpd. The following formats are recognized:
Adobe DNG - same as Apple ProRAW
Canon CR2, CR3, and CRW
Sony ARW
Fuji RAF
Panasonic RW2
Nikon NRF, NEF
Pentax PEF
Olympus ORF
RAW+JPEG and JPEG+RAW¶
Added in version 1.19.0.
iCloud supports images with two representations. icloudpd can download one or both representations.
One representation will be original size and another alternative.
As of June 2024, icloud.com always shows assets with two representations as RAW+JPEG. Photo app on Mac allows choosing which representation to treat as original, but it is not clear what that setting changes.
icloudpd disambiguates behavior with --align-raw parameter: