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

[Brian Reid]

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