[Leica] Warning to iPhone users..... Thanks Apple......

[Douglas Barry]

Cute, Brian.

With my own 15 month grandson about, life is a blur, and needless to say 
all of my cameras are too bulky, so, I have to rely on my phone, as it's 
there, and in my pocket at all times. Mind you, even then, I'm too slow :-)

However, I do have his doting mother who seems determined to document 
all aspects of his life in copious amounts of images on an app called 
FamilyAlbum. She may be an avid photographer, but editing is a thing she 
doesn't seem to believe in: she keeps every image. It's just too much as 
we get sent the links every day to the avalanche of images. I have to 
laugh and just wonder how on earth she is going to find anything in some 
years time.

It's in marked contrast to my younger years, but my Dad did take photos 
of us a fair bit with his Voigtlander Bessa. It seemed to be a father's 
job to work the camera in those days. Incidentally, I was with a friend 
of mine yesterday who has also become a grandfather in the last few 
months, and is experiencing the same thing. He asked me "How many photos 
do you think were taken of me when I was growing up?". Guessing it was 
low, I ventured "Ten?". He then went to an album, and produced one of 
himself aged seven grinning out at the world at his First Communion, and 
said, "One, and this is it". His Dad had died when he was 16 months old, 
so the family camera stayed locked in a drawer unused.

That said, I'm heading off for a few days and will bring my Sony and 
Fuji. My current phone just doesn't cut it.

Douglas

On 30/09/2022 05:11, Brian Reid 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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