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iOS 8 to Expand Manual Controls for iPhone Photographers
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This is great. A camera's quality these days isn't measured totally in terms of the hardware in isolation but how well and easily you can do a workflow with the image. My iPhone won't replace my dedicated cameras but it's darn good at taking an image and putting it where I want it to go. Having some new features available for third party devs will just make those apps far more useful and without some of their current tricks. I bet Camera+ will be a lot more useful.
Would love to have manual focus controlespecially when trying to take a photo of something up close. When the autofocus hunts it's always able to back out far enough for it to be in focus but for some reason shifts just past it. Like it can physically focus that close but the autofocus lock can't work on objects that close?
It's too bad that iOS devices are so thin. It's going to be a while before we can put quality sensors and glass into tiny phones. By then they will likely be paper thin. I'd love for Apple to release a digital camera that runs iOS. Some camera makers are starting to embed Android in their cameras because it's cheaper than building their own software stack and the hardware to power it is so cheap nowadays. I'd hate it if I had to use an Android powered dSLR or mirrorless. Though Apple would never do a pro camera. There would need to be a whole lens system and things get messy from there. I love my Sony RX100 for casual shots with the family and something like that running iOS with a version of Lightroom Mobile similar to the iPhonethat would be neat doing quick edits of RAW files on the device that took them, as well as organizing them and having them sync back to my library on my rMBP.
It's too bad that iOS devices are so thin. It's going to be a while before we can put quality sensors and glass into tiny phones. By then they will likely be paper thin. I'd love for Apple to release a digital camera that runs iOS. Some camera makers are starting to embed Android in their cameras because it's cheaper than building their own software stack and the hardware to power it is so cheap nowadays. I'd hate it if I had to use an Android powered dSLR or mirrorless. Though Apple would never do a pro camera. There would need to be a whole lens system and things get messy from there. I love my Sony RX100 for casual shots with the family and something like that running iOS with a version of Lightroom Mobile similar to the iPhonethat would be neat doing quick edits of RAW files on the device that took them, as well as organizing them and having them sync back to my library on my rMBP.
Compressed raw is an option, too. I doubt the AD converter is doing more than about 10 bit data per channel. They could do a raw format that loses some of the negligible highlight data, be in 10 bit format (12 bit if it makes people feel better, but most 12 bit raw really has 11 bit data with random bit noise), and give us something pretty special without a lot of space taken. Akin to Nikon's Lossy Compressed Raw format (which is essentially a TIFF with some tags and compression). The key is whether they want to make their image processing special sauce available for other apps to use.
Note that I've been working on a full client, which is already usable for iOS 8 users:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19223035
Feel free to deploy and use it.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19223035
Feel free to deploy and use it.
I totally agree. There's no reason why Apple can't have a setting that allows user to go into manual mode while keeping auto mode for people who want a simpler camera app. Unless Apple provides some way for me to change the default camera app (so that I can go directly to the app from the lock screen), I really need these controls in the default camera app.
Pfffft you and your crop sensor.
I want a phone with a full-frame sensor, and integrated 18mm-300mm F/1.8 constant aperture zoom lens, in a thinner and lighter package than the current iPhone.
My Nikon D70 from 9 years ago has compressed RAW files. They take up less space, but contain the same amount of data. They are basically just zipped and unzipped as they are used. No loss of data.
Good info, thanks.
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My first DSLR was a nikon d40 lol. I have't shot in about 2 years now though
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Doesn't seem very necessary thanks to the automatic focus/adjustment features already in place, but the features are welcome.
Yeah, but when you're done editing it, you compress it. The RAW file is only temporary for while you edit it...
It is necessary in many cases; for example, when shooting fast action in low(er) light.
From a camera that can generate RAWs, IMHO RAW files aren't temporary. They should be treated as your originals. The analogy to the film days is a negative. Just like in film (you want to keep your negatives), in digital you definitely want to keep your RAWs. You never know.
JPGs/Other compressions are used to share with. Those can *always* be generated on the fly.
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No kidding, right? Maybe all the restrictions made sense when most people had flip phones in their pockets, it's just insane today. "Apple, trying hard to do a Sony."
