17.13 Hasselblad Phocus
A free RAW developer software from the makers of some of the most sophisticated analog and digital cameras. And yes, there were Hasselblad analog cameras on the moon with the Apollo missions, of course.
You can download their free software for macOS from here: https://www.hasselblad.com/phocus/
There is one little problem, though, and that is Annotations and other metadata created with Phocus. Phocus offers an integrated Annotations and Metadata editor, to be found in the Inspector.
Unfortunately, Phocus has some very unusual ideas about how and where to write metadata, and in some cases, this can actually cause the loss of annotations written by other applications.
Also unfortunately, Phocus is unable to read standard XMP metadata, either written into JPG files, or as "sidecar" XMP files.
In detail
1. RAW files in .FFF and .3FR format
The Phocus software will write your Annotations directly into these RAW files, in the older IPTC standard format.
NeoFinder 8.7 will now read that data, too. And if the suitable option is enabled in the Expert Settings, it will even write XMP data into the FFF and 3FR files directly, so that Phocus can read them.
2. All other photo file formats that Phocus can edit
This includes Nikon NEF, Canon CR2, JPG, HEIC, and a lot of other formats. The Phocus software will write your metadata and Annotations to a separate proprietary and undocumented ("sidecar") file format, with the added suffix ".phos".
They do NOT use the standard Adobe XMP sidecar or data format, but something only their own format.
That has numerous problems for all Digital Asset Manager tools available, as they usually will not read nor write these special sidecar ".phos" files.
But NeoFinder 8.7 does.
Data loss warning!
Both options have one massive problem. Phocus only writes data fields it knows about, and will delete ALL additional data that was written by other applications.
So if you use NeoFinder to add custom annotations, or the new Alt Text and Extended Description fields to photos, or hierarchical keywords, and then edit any metadata fields in Phocus, the Phocus software will delete that additional data!
Make sure to use Phocus only to set up initial metadata, and then let other tools handle the later annotation changes.
Next
17.1 Photo Contact Sheet
17.2 Adobe XMP, EXIF and IPTC meta data
17.3 Lossless picture rotation
17.4 Edit the EXIF creation date
17.5 Truncate JPG files
17.6 Photographer Workflows
17.7 Photo Export
17.8 Astronomy data
17.9 Watermark Presets
17.10 QuickEdit
17.11 Unique Photo ID
17.12 EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
17.13 Hasselblad Phocus
5.8 Find Similar Photos