Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] Photosmith for iPad
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:16:06 -0700
References: <2604F9BD-4D9D-48A4-873A-2F61EB8604BA@gmail.com> <AF467C16-E791-43E3-936E-1CCB3B62FBE7@embarqmail.com> <C78FEB9E-71FC-48DF-AA39-582494015E2E@embarqmail.com>

Thanks Ric. 

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Bob Adler
Redwood City, CA

On May 23, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> <Leica RAW
> At this time, we do not recommend using Photosmith (or the iPad) with 
> Leica DNG raw files unless you shoot RAW+JPG. Apple?s support for Leica?s 
> DNG format is very weak and in most cases will display only a 320?216 
> thumbnail as it?s largest size. This is because the DNG format that Leica 
> shoots doesn?t contain as much information as other raw formats and in 
> most cases, not enough for the iPad to be able to generate a full screen 
> preview. Since Photosmith relies on Apple?s RAW handling, we are limited 
> by Apple?s support.
> 
> However, if you shoot RAW+JPG then we combine both files together to 
> extract all the information we need to display a large preview (up to the 
> max size of the JPG you shoot). In all cases, even if you can?t see a 
> large preview, you can still rate, tag, keyword, etc. and when you sync 
> with LR we?ll sync all the files over including the DNGs.>
> 
> 
> On May 23, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
> 
>> heqaded to look at the fine print
>> 
>> version 1 did not support leica raw
>> 
>> ric
>> 
>> 
>> On May 23, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Robert G Adler wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone used this? It looks interesting:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7c7rndt
>>> Bob
>>> 
>>> Bob Adler
>>> www.rgaphoto.com
>>> Sirisly
>>> 
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In reply to: Message from rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert G Adler) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Photosmith for iPad)