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iPhone 14 Pro Should I use the 48MP camera setting on my iPhone 14 Pro for the best photos?
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if you are fine with editing yes as it's better than depending on apple's post processing which is not as good as it should be.
I'm sorry, but why do the 48MP photos have to be edited? I thought they were better than the original camera photos
I don't believe I have ever processed an image before. I need to do some reasearch on what exactly that entails
You don't need 48MP for posts to social media. Just shoot jpgs and play with size and compression until you're happy with the results when you view your posts online. Enjoy!
shooting in raw gives you greater chances to edit due to better default detail. If you don't edit though you won't see much difference. you are also getting massive files for basically same photo.
you are better off taking photo in pro raw and editing in light room which can reduce size of the photo.
The Halide app and ProCam 8 app allow you to shoot 48mp jpeg or HEIF files. They aren’t free though. Otherwise ProRAW is your only option. The 48mp files are fantastic! I use ProRAW exclusively though because I prefer to edit my photos using Lightroom mobile. If you aren’t accustomed to editing photos, raw files will be a bit overwhelming. There are plenty of YouTube videos available to educate yourself if interested. Otherwise third party apps will allow jpeg files in 48mp. You just have to buy one and go into the settings of the app and select 48mp output instead of 12mp.
Well that’s an encouraging answer. No ambition ’eh? That’s why you buy the Pro iPhone. Otherwise get the regular 14.
A RAW image file is essentially a digital negative (like a film negative but with a lot more leverage and control). Sometimes you don’t have to do much to “develop” them, but that’s what they’re designed for. If you’ve never processed an image and you’ve been happy with the photos coming straight out of the camera, you’re probably good to go. But if you want to compare and contrast and learn something new, that can be fun too.
Yes! I definitely do. I need to learn about raw photos. I would love to take them, do some mild editing which I would need to learn how, and then make them into jpg.
You're probably aware, but the M2 for editing raw photos is overkill. The M1 is more than enough (and then some), on either Macbook or iPad if that helps you save some money.
Best option I think is shooting RAW and daily converting with a shortcut to HEIC. This way you reap all the benefits of the 48MP, but you get exactly the same "point and shoot" approach, with no need for editing or so, of standard HEIC files.
This is what I do, the only inconvenience is the space occupied by the "deleted" RAW files, but after 30 days they get automatically deleted, or you can do it yourself.
This is the shortcut I use: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5db59902c04d43dbb530140338c7f683
This is what I do, the only inconvenience is the space occupied by the "deleted" RAW files, but after 30 days they get automatically deleted, or you can do it yourself.
This is the shortcut I use: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5db59902c04d43dbb530140338c7f683