Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information