![]() IPhone internally processed versions of the same photos I tried processing in CaptureOne manage to take backlighting and turn it into something magical. Finally Huawei is now building some larger sensor phones again as well. Heck DxO put out its own DxO One at the time. When DxO showed serious interest in supporting mobile phones, there had been some movement in 2014 to more interesting phone sensors with phones like the 1 inch Panasonic DMC-CM1 and Nokia Lumia 1020 coming to market. I can see why Photolab is trying to avoid mobile DNG files: they are just not very good. Within its limitations, Photos might do a better job than the third party apps. Not tested this round as I don’t want to open it up and have it start chewing through my images and/or hiding them but Photos app will work with all of these 3. Much worse than what I get out of the iPhone using Apple’s own processing. Results of DNG processing: taking a well-exposed file and applying a simple S-curve, attempting to dial back the highlights was very poor. If I really want to archive in HEIC, I can export in 16-bit TIFF and then use a dedicated tool to create archive quality HEIC files. There is no HEIC export, but that’s not really an issue. It begs the question why PhotoLab 5 did not add at least OS level support for HEIC/HEIF, making the royalty fees redundant. Evidently CaptureOne is not paying for HEIC/HEIF support and is leveraging the OS. Windows users have to install some extensions from Microsoft (HEVC Video Extensions and HEIF Image Extensions). CaptureOne 21 (14.0.0) and laterĬaptureOne did eventually add HEIC/HEIF support. The work to turn these RAW images into something viable makes me look longingly at my D850, my Z6, my Z50 and even my son’s D3300. No native profile so there’s some work to be done setting up a viable workflow. Did better on recovering highlights than Lightroom. Will not see or import iPhone HEIC or even JPEG files. The results alas could not match DxO PhotoLab partly because of the absence of local adjustments and advanced colour profiles. Not a bad tool, as Iridient Developer offers nearly direct access to the actual RAW data with its scientific style tools. Iridient Developer’s extreme highlight recovery proved to be very useful on some tough images. Last HEIC/HEIF specific bugs fixed in version 3.3.6. Ignores HEIC/HEIF as RAW only through Iridient Developer 3.2.2. There is a workaround to be able to develop iPhone DNG images up to the iPhone 11 Pro with PhotoLab via MetaImage.ĭespite the lack of official support, the results from iPhone DNG from PhotoLab 5 are head and shoulders above any of the other applications in my experience. ![]() Does not support show or even show HEIC/HEIF images. Sees iPhone DNG but will not open them after the iPhone X. Raw Developers PhotoLab 4 and PhotoLab 5 Photo Browser Simple tools like Lyn or Lilyview which use Apple’s own display libraries do work. Will show HEIC and iPhone DNG photos with large thumbnails from 10.13.2. If you are using PhotoMechanic already though for pro work, you can keep using the tool you know best. On the other hand, Photo Mechanic would be total overkill for iPhone image management. Very useful tool for rating and managing iPhone images! Surprise, surprise. You have full access to a histogram and to detailed EXIF and IPTC information as well as star ratings.ĪpolloOne would be a good inexpensive choice for image triage before processing. Should do as ApolloOne includes two decoders, one libraw and the other Apple’s own system tools. ApolloOneĭisplays iPhone jpg, png, HEIC and DNG perfectly. ![]() ![]() It was very thoughtful of the FRV developers to include HEIC/HEIF in a 1.x release and not hold it for v2.x (which came relatively soon after). I’ve included some sample processing in the RAW developers section. There’s much wider support for HEIC/HEIF today. This is an updated list from November 2020 where the situation was fairly dire. Since I have some files on hand and most of the relevant software installed, I decided to systematically look at iPhone HEIC and DNG support some of the major photo viewers/triage tools and RAW developers as of March 2022.
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