Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] Photosmith for iPad
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:13:49 +1000
References: <2604F9BD-4D9D-48A4-873A-2F61EB8604BA@gmail.com> <AF467C16-E791-43E3-936E-1CCB3B62FBE7@embarqmail.com> <C78FEB9E-71FC-48DF-AA39-582494015E2E@embarqmail.com>

These Blog entries by Sandy McGuffog (Chromasoft) should be of interest.
Among other things he is the author of PhotoRaw (and CornerFix)
http://chromasoft.blogspot.com.au/2012_03_01_archive.html
http://chromasoft.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/what-does-raw-image-support-really-mean.html

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 24 May 2012 08:09, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> <Leica RAW
> At this time, we do not recommend using Photosmith (or the iPad) with
> Leica DNG raw files unless you shoot RAW+JPG. Apple?s support for Leica?s
> DNG format is very weak and in most cases will display only a 320?216
> thumbnail as it?s largest size. This is because the DNG format that Leica
> shoots doesn?t contain as much information as other raw formats and in most
> cases, not enough for the iPad to be able to generate a full screen
> preview. Since Photosmith relies on Apple?s RAW handling, we are limited by
> Apple?s support.
>
> However, if you shoot RAW+JPG then we combine both files together to
> extract all the information we need to display a large preview (up to the
> max size of the JPG you shoot). In all cases, even if you can?t see a large
> preview, you can still rate, tag, keyword, etc. and when you sync with LR
> we?ll sync all the files over including the DNGs.>
>
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
>
> > heqaded to look at the fine print
> >
> > version 1 did not support leica raw
> >
> > ric
> >
> >
> > On May 23, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Robert G Adler wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone used this? It looks interesting:
> >> http://tinyurl.com/7c7rndt
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> Bob Adler
> >> www.rgaphoto.com
> >> Sirisly
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>


In reply to: Message from rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert G Adler) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)