Will EXR still be an editable camera RAW?+
Panasonic RW2 needs camera- and file-aware development to produce a rendered EXR image. White balance, exposure, camera colour interpretation and, where applicable, demosaicing determine that rendering. The destination does not retain the original RAW development latitude. No development settings or camera support are implemented yet.
Will RAW to HDR preserve the original sensor values?+
RAW capture values are not automatically a finished SDR or HDR picture. An HDR-capable destination can hold a developed high-range image, but exposure, camera calibration, colour space and highlight handling determine which captured information reaches it. The future engine defines that development; neither sensor values nor a wider dynamic range are guaranteed to survive.
Will the background become transparent?+
The target can store an alpha channel, but converting an opaque image does not create transparent areas. Removing a background is a separate editing step.
Are bit depth and colour values guaranteed to match?+
Source and target sample models can differ in precision, channel layout, colour space and transfer function. Lossless compression only preserves the samples actually encoded; a precision reduction or colour conversion can already change them. The future engine defines numeric mapping, orientation and colour conversion; canonical depth facts are listed below where available.
Will metadata and colour profiles be retained?+
Panasonic RW2: Capture metadata → EXR: Typed header attributes, Chromaticities. Which fields are copied, rewritten or omitted will depend on the future engine; retention is not implemented yet.