Saturday, October 5, 2019

Reading up on RAW image capture


Our iPhone cameras have improved hardware and software. It is interesting to read about machine-learning and image processing. "The world has turned upside down..."

I'm sharing links to these articles so we can read them once, twice, many times to gradually absorb the underlying magic of realizing our creative vision. 

Articles on RAW photography: 
What the Heck is a RAW Image by Apple (Apps: Halide & Darkroom)
Apple's Photos and RAW Image Handling by Numeric Citizen Blog 
The Power of RAW on iPhone, Part 2: Editing RAW by Sebastian de With, Halide 
iPhone 11 Pro Preview: The Camera Hardware Changes by Sebastian de With, Halide
RAW Power 2.0 for iOS by Gentlemen Coders

JF Martin of Numeric Citizen Blog suggests NOT using Photos Extensions to edit RAW photos. Instead find an app that "natively understands RAW images and also keeps editing instructions separately." In my Nikon experience this means keeping the original .NEF file and let Lightroom create the .XMP as a sidecar file.

Apps on our list that handle RAW images include RAW Power, Darkroom, Camera+ 2 ...