Adobe Lightroom for iOS now supports RAW shooting on iPhone 7, 7 Plus
Two weeks after Adobe brought DNG image file format support to iOS with Lightroom for mobile, the company on Thursday updated its app to take full advantage of Apple's new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
Lightroom for mobile version 2.5.2 adds to an already impressive set of features debuted earlier this month, the most important being the ability to capture RAW digital files in-app.
With today's update, Adobe incorporates lens and sensor profiles for iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, bringing Apple's latest flagship handsets into the fold. Along with in-app shooting, Lightroom has been optimized for iPhone 7 hardware, including the dual-lens array on iPhone 7 Plus, and features improved color, lens, and noise profiles for iPhone 7 and 7 Plus DNG files.
RAW file formats like Adobe's DNG incorporate all image information taken from a camera's sensor in a process that delivers higher quality results than compressed JPEG files. Further, RAW offers users greater post-production flexibility because all sensor information is left intact.
In addition to in-app RAW capture, Lightroom version 2.5.2 supports the DCI-P3 wide color gamut display included in iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Adobe with today's release also took the opportunity to squash some bugs and enhance performance.
Adobe Lightroom for Mobile version 2.5.2 can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store.
Lightroom for mobile version 2.5.2 adds to an already impressive set of features debuted earlier this month, the most important being the ability to capture RAW digital files in-app.
With today's update, Adobe incorporates lens and sensor profiles for iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, bringing Apple's latest flagship handsets into the fold. Along with in-app shooting, Lightroom has been optimized for iPhone 7 hardware, including the dual-lens array on iPhone 7 Plus, and features improved color, lens, and noise profiles for iPhone 7 and 7 Plus DNG files.
RAW file formats like Adobe's DNG incorporate all image information taken from a camera's sensor in a process that delivers higher quality results than compressed JPEG files. Further, RAW offers users greater post-production flexibility because all sensor information is left intact.
In addition to in-app RAW capture, Lightroom version 2.5.2 supports the DCI-P3 wide color gamut display included in iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Adobe with today's release also took the opportunity to squash some bugs and enhance performance.
Adobe Lightroom for Mobile version 2.5.2 can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store.
Comments
Question: why is it that Apple gives us an upgraded camera with 2 lenses and decent sensor with the ability to produce a raw format image, and then virtually no instructions on how to actually use it?
Having been using computers since they were called micro computers, and having been a photographer for 60 years, I have an idea how these things work - how is a person without my expertise supposed to use something like this?
I went to a Lightroom user group for a hands-on demo the day after the new LR App dropped.
I'd suggest the Adobe Lightroom blog as a starting point.
I wouldn't hold my breath for Apple to make it happen. Maybe Black Magic will make an App for RAW video like Adobe made the RAW still capture App for iOS.
As an aside, DPReview has a studio test up for the iPhone 7 and they ended up have to redo the one for the iPhone 7 Plus; testing a dual lens system where there are two focal lengths, two fields of view, and two sensors sizes is yet to be figured out. Throw in the computational imaging that is controlling the ISO/Shutter speed and it isn't too difficult to imagine that studio tests on 2D targets as a means of grading IQ is a complete fail. Ignore these for the most part, and follow the real world photographers that are getting mostly exceptional results from the beta based on their real world images.
Black Magic does have some economical cinema cameras in either 2.5K or 4K that output RAW or ProRes to an SSD.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/cinemacameras
Incidentally, it is unwise of the article to describe DNG as a Raw format. DNG is intended to be able to retain all the information from a typical Raw format (there are many) but is designed to be portable amongst processing systems. Raw formats are generally proprietary, usually closed (unpublished) and tied to a greater to lesser extent to hardware in the camera that produced them. DNG is (will be) an open standard that does more processing on the data to get it into a standard format but aims to retain all the information. Contrast this to 'end-product' formats like JPEG or even TIFF that generally contain information-losing processing (e.g. colour profiles), compression etc.