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iPhone 12 Pro Max Which format are people using ? HEIC or JPG ?

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Just wondering, I have been using JPG setting since they announced HEIC back in 2017..

but wondering people thoughts and what people use now ?

thanks
 
HEIC is going to give you the same quality at 1/2 the storage space. Compatibility may be an issue back when it was introduced but I don’t think it’s much of an issue these days.

I would only shoot raw if you are doing some photo hobby up to profession shooting. The other may be when taking pics in non ideal conditions where you are expecting to do a little more than normal editing.
 
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Jpg forever.
The iPhone is a snapshot point & shoot camera. Don't waste your time or storage shooting raw. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear so they say.
Shooting RAW on an iPhone is like shooting RAW on a point & shoot. The quality isn't there from the beginning and no amount of pixel pushing afterwards can change that — though it might be able to be massaged a bit to look a tad better.
I choose JPG because eventually you'll run into compatibility issues with HEIF with some device or place.
JPG banding? So what. It's a snapshot.
 
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Heic. I set my Android to shoot heic as well. Why bother with jpeg when you can have a better and more efficient format?

And compatibility is no longer an issue. Pretty much all new phones (and even the iPhone 6s) can view heic photo. Android 10 and Windows 10 support heic as well. And most phones will auto convert to jpeg when the app (eg. WhatsApp) doesn’t support it. So why sticking with jpeg?
 
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Does IOS iPhone .HEIC save photos in 10bit ? compare to 8bit with jpg ?..

Been comparing photos today and seems the blacks and shadows on the HEIC images are better.
 
now i see it said:
Jpg forever.
The iPhone is a snapshot point & shoot camera. Don't waste your time or storage shooting raw. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear so they say.
Shooting RAW on an iPhone is like shooting RAW on a point & shoot. The quality isn't there from the beginning and no amount of pixel pushing afterwards can change that — though it might be able to be massaged a bit to look a tad better.
I choose JPG because eventually you'll run into compatibility issues with HEIF with some device or place.
JPG banding? So what. It's a snapshot.
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Not true with ProRAW - a very significant improvement (I use RAW on all of my photo equipment).
 
HEIF all the way since it was launched. As many have said, same quality as jpeg with less storage needs. I question why anyone would like the other way?! I’ve never run into any compatibility issues either.
 
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storage, memory is not expensive. For every day photo stuff anything works,. Not that an iPhone even has a way to add a proper lense. The new displayes are not all that color correct
 
Quick question on this subject; last year I bought the iPhone SE 2020. It was set to HEIC when I started using it. However, I use the standalone Lightroom 6 to catalogue my photos on my Mac and HEIC was not compatible with that. Also, at the time, I could not upload any HEIC photos onto the forums on here. That may have changed now, I don't know. Therefore, I switched back to JPG which I'm still using now.

I read some forums where people were suggesting HEIC was problematic (probably people who had encountered the problems I had). Storage on my iPhone is not an issue for me as I will take a load of photos and Airdop them to my Mac and remove most of them from my iPhone.

Is there a way I can get Lightroom 6 to work with HEIC without upgrading to one of Adobe's monthly plans?
 
Apple_Glen_UK said:
Quick question on this subject; last year I bought the iPhone SE 2020. It was set to HEIC when I started using it. However, I use the standalone Lightroom 6 to catalogue my photos on my Mac and HEIC was not compatible with that. Also, at the time, I could not upload any HEIC photos onto the forums on here. That may have changed now, I don't know. Therefore, I switched back to JPG which I'm still using now.

I read some forums where people were suggesting HEIC was problematic (probably people who had encountered the problems I had). Storage on my iPhone is not an issue for me as I will take a load of photos and Airdop them to my Mac and remove most of them from my iPhone.

Is there a way I can get Lightroom 6 to work with HEIC without upgrading to one of Adobe's monthly plans?
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I think you're stuck on that one - LR didn't support HEIC until ver. 7.4 or 7.5. I believe you could use Adobe's free DNG converter and convert the HEIC files to DNG but you can't use the base HEIC files in LR 6.
 
sparksd said:
I think you're stuck on that one - LR didn't support HEIC until ver. 7.4 or 7.5. I believe you could use Adobe's free DNG converter and convert the HEIC files to DNG but you can't use the base HEIC files in LR 6.
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I thought that might be the case. It's not a problem for me - I'll stick with JPG.
 
I use HEIC. If I need jpg's I'll convert them with Imazing on my Windows work PC.
 
I am all for HEIC.
The only issue - so to speak - I have at the moment is what can I do to auto convert non iPhone photo imports in my library to HEIC.
Either at the time of import or as a bulk / batch process right after
 
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