Product manager, systems architect/engineer (hardware and signal processing), and hardware design engineer. In both commercial telecom and aerospace realms.
I've noticed that there were times you mentioned you were a photographer from the Bay area. Was this your professional side gig or a hobby? I'm just asking because of your views on photography and Apple's cameras versus DSLRs, etc, while coming from the engineering side of things in the telecom and aerospace industries.
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Really? Recording two video streams (from both cameras) for a few minutes takes up a lot of storage on the phone?
Third-party camera apps can save the raw data from the iPhone's camera(s). This started with iOS 10 last year and is possible with the iPhone 6s or later (if I remember it correctly).
You do realise that the dpi metadata values in images is completely superfluous and irrelevant? There is practically no situation where it is used for anything (except to troll people like you into complaining about it).
What it says in theory is how large (physically, in inches) an image should be displayed (divide the pixel count of an image by the dpi value and you get inches). But that instruction is essentially never honoured. Put an image into a document and image box you create in the document determines the physical size of the image (and that is assuming the document is printed or viewed at its nominal dimensions). Put an image into a webpage and it is either displayed at 100% in terms of pixels (poorly coded webpages) and thus at whatever dpi the display has, or it is displayed at whatever size the page layout assigns to the image. View an image in an image viewer and it is either viewed at an application-determined thumbnail size, filling the application window (or a subsection of the application window), at fullscreen size or at 100% (which again means using the dpi of the monitor).
Only when printing there might a print option to use the dpi of the image. But why anybody would choose that instead of selecting a physical size is a big mystery.
I never use the print option for images to hard copies on 8 x 10 paper. I used to do that years ago before the advent of tablets and smartphones came about which made it easier to carry a digital portfolio of the work I do. I do mostly illustration work by hand and digitally. However, when it comes to creating something that is for print, usually 300 dpi is the standard, especially if it's for t-shirts ( probably close to 600 if need be but I go with vector done on Illustrator ).
The images originally shot on iPhone would be a bit too big to upload, so I usually have to scale them down so that the file size is smaller and easier to post up. Most of the time, when it comes to Instagram or other social media, it's not a problem as it's automatic. But at certain times, when on iPad Pro, I use Pixelmator scale them down or Photoshop on the desktop.
On the other hand, when I start out with digital art, I do it on the iPad Pro and then export the piece to the desktop when I have to. On Procreate, I go with either 150 or 300 dpi for high resolution work. That way, when they're done, I can save another copy as a 'web ready' image. Low res images online usually make it hard for image thieves to really print them out in detail to be sold and this is already a huge problem in the comics or publishing industry where artists have their works stolen. Or thieves claiming credit to the work that's not their's.
As far as third party apps allowing RAW format, I didn't realize that but might look into it if the situation arises when I have to take still photography on large artwork ( I have a tripod and horizontal bar for the camera to shoot to the floor or surface with a bluetooth remote. It's pretty handy ). I usually go with the Olloclip lens time to time when I want to play with the wide or fisheye effect, or maximum zoom which are really helpful.
But it's when I'm shooting images for reference, I have no intention of using them for print and just refer to them when doing a project. When I really want to take a photo of something to incorporate into a file for image manipulation for print, this is something I have to keep in mind. Because of that, when you bring in a 72 dpi image straight from iphone, in whatever size in inches it's at ( I think 24 x 24? ), the last thing you want to do is to 'upscale' 72 to 300 which would make it appear somewhat fuzzy, or even increase file size unnecessarily.
On Camera +, there is Qualty and Format menu option ranging from JPEG ( download, normal and high ) and to TIFF. It also has 'Save RAW Photo' option.
That last part just surprised me when I recently look at this app a while ago this morning. It looks like I'll have to use that app for specific projects and the stock Camera app only for basic image referencing or social media purposes.
