Petapixel:
It turns out Apple snuck a big photography announcement into the background of the WWDC presentation yesterday: RAW photo editing is coming to iOS 10.
The feature was hidden in the background among the many other listed improvements for developers in the next version of iOS, but since Apple didn’t call it out by name during the presentation, it went largely unnoticed.
This is a big deal to professional shooters and anyone who shoots in RAW but edits on their iOS device. It will also bring a lot of changes to apps in iOS that allow you to edit photos. And it means that, undoubtedly, RAW capture will be available in the next version of the iPhone and iPad.
Do you capture RAW, Shawn?
I used to, but over time I realized I’d rather have 30 JPEGs to play with than 3 RAWs.
I do. The way I describe it to my students is, “If you want to edit and tweak, shoot RAW. If you want speed, shoot JPEG”.
I would probably shoot RAW if Photos had a better workflow for degrading images I don’t flag somehow to JPEG. I keep waiting for that. 🙂 But every time I tried to shoot RAW, I started getting stingy about hitting the shutter button.
OK, that earns a “finally” from me.
Oh, one other thing: You’re right about RAW capture. I saw this on one of the other slides, I think, and in any case I’ve heard it confirmed now.
Yeah – I’d heard about it from a Little Birdie I know at Apple. 🙂
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Why? What reason would you have holding back on shutter button when shooting RAW?
As if editing on mobile was a notable absence in your life prior to now.
RAW capture on iOS device cameras has always been available because camera sensors can only capture in RAW. Previously (or rather currently), Apple simply didn’t make the RAW file available because one couldn’t edit in RAW anyhow. Now, it makes sense to make RAW data available; and it requires negative coding to make it so. This may also suggest that the camera on iPhone 7 is good enough to justify RAW editing. Frankly, editing in RAW using data from the current iPhone 6s cameras probably wouldn’t matter much.
Yup. I travel a lot and use my shit.
I’m not sure how much RAW capture (as opposed to editing) people will use, but I could see it. The iPhone is basically a fixed lens camera at around 28mm (I’m sure someone will correct me on that 😉 ). Cropping and cleanup is frequent for me, especially in low light.
I think the big win will be for editing. I like a lightweight setup and so a lot of street photography – I find I do a surprising amount of editing on my 6+. My wife is the opposite and has all the gear and shoots big, beautiful landscapes and architecture. Her main computer is her iPad Pro but she now uses her Mac for photo editing.
I think the available photo tools on iOS are amazing and I think this opens up a hell of a lot of fun. I’m pretty excited about this.
There is no point to saving in RAW (there’s no such thing non-RAW capture) if you are not editing in RAW, unless you trust the conversion to JPEG of an iOS app over native conversion in camera.
Limited to the most current apple camera devices.
I just moved up from a 256GB SSD which was always damn close to full.
I thought that Photos already supported importing RAW images, (including on iOS via camera kit) and those could be edited via Photos on iOS, so what is different about this?
I missed yesterday’s session so maybe they explained it.
Even if you shoot with super high res DSLR, you’re looking at 50MB RAW files – smaller if you go with lossless compression. I don’t see why shooting RAW will cause a storage issue unless you never delete files. Even so, no offence but you do know how to switch out cards? All to say, I don’t see any logic in what you are saying.