Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Chris Kern on May 04, 2014, 06:46:46 pm
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
—Finian's Rainbow, 1947
OK, I know I should carry a "real camera" with me everywhere, and I even have one that offers quite reasonable image quality and will fit in a pocket. But I'm an old, forgetful, guy, and sometimes my only option is an iPhone (model 5s, if that matters), which is always available. And I've made a few pictures with it lately whose subject and composition I'm rather pleased with. The resulting image file? Not so much.
The JPEGs the 8 Mpx phone camera emits are pretty good, but obviously they're processed. I can make some improvements in Lightroom or Photoshop, but since the source files are already cooked, there's a limit to what I can do without creating serious image degradation.
What I really need is an iOS application that would capture the raw light-sensor data. Apparently, that doesn't exist (http://www.cultofmac.com/221058/digital-negative-for-iphone-is-as-raw-as-it-can-get/). Is the Cult of Mac article the currently definitive word on the subject? Anybody else have better suggestions?