Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/14

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Subject: [Leica] Photosmith... Leica Comments.....
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:36:07 +0100
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I just bought it tonight and can confirm that it works great on M8 images. 
The editing controls are also sufficient for a minimalist like me, except 
that there is no cropping tool as far as I can tell.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Sandy McGuffog wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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