download the new for ios DxO PhotoLab 7.1.0.94

With the impressive progress on smartphone photo quality, I now not only take pictures with my DSLR, but also with my iPhone.

Indeed the point is beyond HEIC support or not, it’s really about commitment (or the lack of) of DxO towards supporting iPhones (or more broadly smartphones). But I do believe that the noise reduction would be better since the iPhone’s is not fantastic.īut 99% of times I am totally happy with the iPhone results and I have absolutely no intention to do more work on those pictures… and with the iPhone 12 photography on iPhone is making another massive step in terms of quality on your phone. I also think it would be hard for DxO too match the Apple processing since it is very advanced and integrates every sensor in the iPhone to get to the result. I am not a big fan of HEIC (unlike HEIV) but I get why people want to see support since iPhone’s are very popular cameras and converting is an extra step and you end up with duplicates if you want to keep the HEIC files Apple ProRaw blends Apple computational photography with a raw format so photographers will get the benefit of noise reduction and dynamic range with the flexibility of raw images. iPhones and Android phones have been able to shoot raw photos for years, an unprocessed alternative to JPEG that lets photographers decide how best to edit an image. The iPhone 12 Pro models get another computational photography technique that Apple calls ProRaw. It makes all Apple’s tricks accessible so you can turn them on or off while processing the RAW. The iPhone 12 Pro cameras come with an entirely new Apple ProRAW format which should be accessible by developers like ProRES for video.

I disagree as there are occasional shots (non-HDR/wide dynamic range) where the iOS RAW file as processed by Photolab would give a much better result. I believe this is the reason DxO stood down on iOS RAW: comparing their work to what Apple does internally within the phone would be unfavourable to DxO. I almost never shoot RAW any more on my iPhone 11 as the RAW files are mediocre and the Apple processed jpegs so much better. One issue with processing RAW from iPhone 11 Pro is that Apple’s processing (which allows native HDR) is so much better in mixed lighting than anything which can done with the RAW file. iOS RAW such is used by Moment Pro Camera or Halide is another matter.

HEIC is not at all necessary (there is no extra information in there, no 16-bit file hidden) and software publisher licensing fees are very onerous. DxO PL 4 released today has absolutely no news about this.

Download the new for ios DxO PhotoLab 7.1.0.94