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With iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max comes Apple ProRaw, a juicy first for photographers that can affect even users less used to shooting. Let’s explain better. Raw is a digital negative created by the cameras that each brand calls their own way (Canon has the Crw, Nikon the Nef, Fuji the Raf …). It is not a photo and cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is a file that contains all the information of each shot, pixel by pixel. As a negative of the past, Raw must be “developed” or transformed into real images like the Jpgs that we use every day (or the Heic that today’s iPhones offer).
Because it makes a difference
Continuing with the analog comparison, the negative allows us to do many more changes compared to an already printed photo and here is the difference. In the case of Apple ProRaw, in addition to the raw data (“Raw” in fact), there is digital data collected by the processor, GPU, Isp (Image Signal Processor) and Neural Engine, as well as that added by Deep Fusion and Smart HDR. Therefore, a photo will be made up of many layers, all individually editable. Not only with the smartphone, but also with third-party software.
Having the ability to take a file and process it with your computer can make the iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max excellent companions for the professional photographer. Many Android smartphones have been offering this possibility for years. We test it live with a fashion shoot made entirely with the smartphone and published in large format on the pages of Messenger Service (Here you can see the photos). It’s hard to think they were taken with a phone.
The Apple ProRaw marks, therefore, the change of pace that we have been waiting for a long time. For years, to be precise. Working in those “layers” means having “full creative control over color, details and dynamic range ”, as Apple writes. It allows you to have the shot as we want and not as interpreted by a machine that, no matter how advanced, will never understand our true intentions. It still means having images that are more realistic or completely distorted by our creativity.
What will change
The question is legitimate: will anything change for the non-photography user? The answer is yes and for two reasons. On the one hand, Apple ProRaw will allow you to make very deep changes directly from the phone. Better shots then, but also an excellent introduction to the multiple potentialities that lie behind a blow.
On the other hand are the processing software. Programs like Camera Raw, which is built into Photoshop, may be scary at first, but they actually allow you to work wonders with just a few taps. In fact, only one. For example, just a click (or a tap on the screen as there are also for tablets) and the photo is realigned. Always with a touch then here is the black and white. the see white and the see black, not those lame grays you see often. A few more touches and the noise decreases, the exposure is modified, the color is calibrated, and the white is balanced. Another world. We still do not know if the Apple ProRaw will be able to get out of the phone to work outside but that is the hope.
Although it will be interesting to try the new format won’t come right away. It is expected later in the year via an update to iOS 14 and, as mentioned, it will only be compatible with the iPhone 12 Pro (coming October 23) and Pro Max (November 13).
October 13, 2020 (change October 13, 2020 | 23:58)
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