IOS Guide: You Can Now Take Raw Photos
iOS: Manual is a powerful, well-designed camera app that gives you full control over the exposure of your photos, and with the arrival of iOS 10 Manual 2.0 can now shoot raw DNG photos.
You’ve probably heard of raw DNG files before as the format of choice among professional photographers. It is a lossless “digital negative” that retains more color and tonal information than more compressed image formats such as JPG, making it ideal for post-facto photo editing. iOS 10 lets new iPhones take raw photos, but Apple’s built-in camera app doesn’t really give you that option. you need an application like Manual. To shoot RAW, you need an iPhone SE, 6S, 6S Plus, 7, or 7 Plus with iOS 10.
Adobe Lightroom for iOS also recently got the ability to shoot raw photos , but if you don’t want to rely on the infrastructure of Adobe Creative Cloud, the guide offers a more offline way to shoot and save raw DNG photos. (As far as I can tell, you can’t save a raw photo in Lightroom without exporting it as JPG, unless you’re using Creative Cloud to sync photos across multiple devices.) In manual mode, you can simply sync your photos to your desktop. and then edit them in your preferred DNG-compatible software.
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