iPhone and iPad apps will be able to shoot RAW photos with iOS 10
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Good news, iPhone-toting photo lovers: RAW photo shooting support is coming to iOS 10.
(Wondering what the heck a “RAW” photo is? It’s any file type that stores an image in its rawest form, sans compression and pre-processing. The upside: you’ve got a lot more data to work with, allowing for a much greater degree of editing flexibility in post processing — hence why pro photographers tend to shoot in RAW. The downside: the files tend to be pretty damned big.)
Eagle-eyed watchers spotted a passing mention of RAW photo editing on a slide during yesterday’s keynote, but not a word was said about it on stage.
The functionality was confirmed in a WWDC workshop this afternoon, though, where a few details were laid out:
- Third party developers will be able to shoot and store raw photos, but it’s something they’ll have to add to their apps — it won’t just suddenly start working across all your apps when you update to iOS 10.
- It’ll work with the rear camera only
- As with many DSLRs, iOS can handle shooting in RAW and JPEG simultaneously
- It’ll be available to apps running on the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, SE, and the 9.7” iPad
- RAW photos will be stored in Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) file format
Alas, no word yet on if/how Apple plans to support RAW photos within their own Camera app.
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