Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PhotoRaw will display and convert M9 (and M8/X1/S2) images at full resolution on the iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photoraw/id413899112?mt=8 PhotoRaw Lite is a free evaluation vernon that you can try before you buy. Disclaimer: I'm the developer. Sandy On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Frank Filippone wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information