Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is what Photosmith says about using Leica RAW files with an IPad Leica RAW At this time, we do not recommend using Photosmith (or the iPad) with Leica DNG raw files unless you shoot RAW+JPG. Apple?s support for Leica?s DNG format is very weak and in most cases will display only a 320?216 thumbnail as it?s largest size. This is because the DNG format that Leica shoots doesn?t contain as much information as other raw formats and in most cases, not enough for the iPad to be able to generate a full screen preview. Since Photosmith relies on Apple?s RAW handling, we are limited by Apple?s support. However, if you shoot RAW+JPG then we combine both files together to extract all the information we need to display a large preview (up to the max size of the JPG you shoot). In all cases, even if you can?t see a large preview, you can still rate, tag, keyword, etc. and when you sync with LR we?ll sync all the files over including the DNGs. Given the relatively small cost of SDHC cards, I guess this is a pretty small ?cost? to get the ability to start your Keywording right after you take the picture and before you get home .. I wonder if, after you do your thing on the road, get home, and start the mainframe at home, if you MUST import the JPG as well as the RAW file through Photosmith and LR? If so, I guess it would not be too difficult to delete the JPG files ? Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net