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Subject: [Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple......
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:28:29 -0400
References: <351ab9ae1abc84212f6522df83d4cc8b@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>

These are wonderful images!

Barney


Barney Quinn, WK3Z
301-775-1386



> On Sep 30, 2022, at 12:11 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 
> wrote:
> 
> ?I have used HEIC happily for a number of years. It is better than JPEG in 
> every way that matters to me. Converting it to other formats such as JPG 
> or TIFF or PSD is easy; certainly no harder than converting camera-raw 
> formats.
> 
> I find HEIC images produced by my iPhone to be usually better and never 
> worse than JPEG. I've shot probably 10,000 HEIC images.
> 
> I mostly take pictures of people, primarily children. For this purpose my 
> iPhone is the best tool. I always bring my Leica Q2 to family events (and 
> before that, my M9) but rarely end up using it for the kinds of pictures I 
> typically shoot.
> 
> Here are 3 pictures I've taken with my iPhone 12 of my grandson Carter 
> this week. We've been celebrating his 2nd birthday. All of them captured 
> in HEIC, of course. Theoretically I could have gotten images of higher 
> technical quality had I used my Leica, except that I wouldn't have managed 
> to get any of them because the Leica is slower and more cumbersome. And I 
> would not have taken a Leica into the swimming pool, even a Q2. The 
> technical quality of these images is enough for my purposes. I've never 
> been asked to shoot a cover for Vanity Fair.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/misc/
> 
> Workflow for these: iPhone->MacOS "Photos" exported to->Lightroom Classic 
> exported as->JPEG
> 
> 
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