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

[Frank Filippone]

I never contradict Brian.... or at least try never to contradict him.... But my experiences with HEIC are, apparently different than his.....

A lot of that is two people with different criteria. but in this case, my rather arcane use may be the reason in which we differ...

My wife and I do a few activities to keep us active... one of which is to monitor the condition of Monk Seals in Kauai.... basically we get a call and 
go out to look at, set up barriers around, and overall assess the health condition of these endangered critters. Sometimes we are asked to baby sit one.

Part of that assessment is to identify which seal we are dealing with.... We take pictures of the critter and send them to NOAA (to the local Vet and 
protector of the Monk Seals).  To do this I have purchased an old but quite good 500mm F8 lens ( mirror) lens. Mounted to my Nikon D7100, it really 
blows up the details so that I can read the tag on each animal.... The tags are about 2x4 inches, bright red, with white ID numbers on them... There 
are 2 tags, one on each rear flipper.  I can usually get the number from about 35 to 45 feet away.  Take pix, blow up in camera, read tag, take more 
pix to see whole animal.

FYI, and nerdy indeed, I take RAW images,  Inspect in LRCC, convert to Jpg for transmission to the vet.  I keep the RAW images for my photo gallery.

But sometimes I do not have my camera with me.... in which case we use our iPhones to do the ID and assessments.  This is where the HEIC compression 
was insufficient.  The images that I transferred from the phone to the computer were WAY too compressed.  Blocky, and useless.  Remember, I am trying 
to read the 2x4" tag from 35 feet away with a lens of 32mm and a pixel pitch of roughly 1micron.  It requires blowing up as big as possible.  HEIC 
just does not cut it.

Now maybe my use is a bit weird or specialized ( it is) but it showed me that blown up to 1:1  on a 15 inch laptop using LRCC, made the images 
useless.  Something needed to be done to fix the ability to read these tags.  JPGs work,  Heic does not.

Having said all of this, it is a tangent on the overall complaint... APPLE changed something in the way my phone works without my knowledge nor 
agreement.....

Just like they always do.....

Leave my settings alone!

If you want more details on what a Monk Seal is and why it is important to maintain health awareness of a wild critter.... ask me and you will get 
your answers... WARNING.. it is VERY VERY nerdy.


Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at Gmail.com


>> On Sep 30, 2022, at 12:11 AM, Brian Reid<reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>  wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/misc/
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>> Workflow for these: iPhone->MacOS "Photos" exported to->Lightroom Classic exported as->JPEG
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