Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These Blog entries by Sandy McGuffog (Chromasoft) should be of interest. Among other things he is the author of PhotoRaw (and CornerFix) http://chromasoft.blogspot.com.au/2012_03_01_archive.html http://chromasoft.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/what-does-raw-image-support-really-mean.html Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 24 May 2012 08:09, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote: > <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.> > > > On May 23, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > > > heqaded to look at the fine print > > > > version 1 did not support leica raw > > > > ric > > > > > > On May 23, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Robert G Adler wrote: > > > >> Anyone used this? It looks interesting: > >> http://tinyurl.com/7c7rndt > >> Bob > >> > >> Bob Adler > >> www.rgaphoto.com > >> Sirisly > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >