The 64-bit version of PhotoRaw is out
Version 4 of PhotoRaw and PhotoRaw Lite are now available on the App Store. The new version is a full 64-bit rewrite of PhotoRaw, and takes full advantage of the speed of Apple's new devices. I've talked in previous posts about the speed advantages that 64-bit operation can bring.
How fast is the iPad Air for image processing, and does NEON make sense?
In my last blog post, I went all technical, and talked about how to use the SIMD hardware acceleration, otherwise known as NEON, on Apple's new 64-bit processor (aka ARM64, aka ARMv8-A) on the iPad Air and iPhone 5s.
iPad Air, iPhone 5S and 64-bit NEON code
So this one is for the serious techies.
It's been widely publicized that the new iPad Air and iPhone 5s have 64-bit processors. What's not not so well understood is that the 64-bit processors can actually either run old 32-bit code, or new 64-bit code.
AccuRaw Monochrome and true monochrome processing
Lloyd Chambers, of the diglloyd blog, recently published a review of the Nikon D800M in which he used AccuRaw Monochrome for raw processing.
2AccuRaw 30% off for the black Friday weekend
For that have been looking for an opportunity to buy AccuRaw, it's 30% off on the App Store for the whole black Friday weekend, through cyber Monday.
Lens resolution, software correction and raw converters
Sean Reid, of Reid Reviews, just published a follow-up article to his test of the Fujifilm XF27/2.8 lens, titled "XF Lens Res. Revisited". In this article Sean repeats a number of his previous tests of Fuji and Zeiss lenses, but this time using AccuRaw.
"The AccuRaw conversion does the best job..."
Sean Reid, of Reid Reviews, just published his extensive test of the Fujifilm XF27/2.8 lens. As usual with Sean's reviews, it very comprehensively covers the lens' performance as regards resolution, aberration, vignetting, etc.
2Perfect skin tones with dcpTool, hue twists and camera calibration
Hans van Eijsden, a fashion and portrait photographer based in the Netherlands, just published a really great article describing how he goes about getting skin tones just right. Most important, he describes how he does so without spending hours manually editing each image.
7PhotoRaw and iOS 7
Several people have asked me whether there will be a new version of PhotoRaw for iOS 7, and if so, will existing users have to pay. For those that don't know, PhotoRaw is my raw image viewer/editor for iPhones and iPads.
Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets
Yesterday the web lit up with variations on "Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets". Originally from Scott Kelby's "The Grid", and then picked up by CNET and multiple others. The big deal being the ability to process raw images on the iPad.
3Lightroom 4.4RC and Capture One versus the X-Trans sensor
Over the past few weeks, support for Fuji's X-Trans sensor, as found in the X-Pro, X-E1 and the new X100s has gone from minimal to quite extensive.
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