Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have used HEIC happily for a number of years. It is better than JPEG in every way that matters to me. Converting it to other formats such as JPG or TIFF or PSD is easy; certainly no harder than converting camera-raw formats. I find HEIC images produced by my iPhone to be usually better and never worse than JPEG. I've shot probably 10,000 HEIC images. I mostly take pictures of people, primarily children. For this purpose my iPhone is the best tool. I always bring my Leica Q2 to family events (and before that, my M9) but rarely end up using it for the kinds of pictures I typically shoot. Here are 3 pictures I've taken with my iPhone 12 of my grandson Carter this week. We've been celebrating his 2nd birthday. All of them captured in HEIC, of course. Theoretically I could have gotten images of higher technical quality had I used my Leica, except that I wouldn't have managed to get any of them because the Leica is slower and more cumbersome. And I would not have taken a Leica into the swimming pool, even a Q2. The technical quality of these images is enough for my purposes. I've never been asked to shoot a cover for Vanity Fair. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/misc/ Workflow for these: iPhone->MacOS "Photos" exported to->Lightroom Classic exported as->JPEG