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Subject: [Leica] Photosmith... Leica Comments.....
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:14:36 +0100
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Thanks Sandy, I was not aware of that.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA



On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Sandy McGuffog wrote:

> Nathan,
> 
> PhotoRaw is indeed (deliberately) minimalistic - you crop by zooming and 
> panning the image via the usual iPad pinch and drag gestures. When you 
> convert to JPEG, PhotoRaw uses what is displayed on the screen as the 
> "crop"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sandy
> 
> 
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> 
>> 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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