moo Posted June 10, 2017 Share #1 Posted June 10, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi! I have purchased the Leica D-LUX 109 and love it. However I was playing around with the camera effects and can see some use for them. I like to shoot in RAW to enable touchups on my Mac later on. However: The effects transfers with the .rwl files as I see the effect in Finder´s preview; but when I open the .rwl regardless of app (Mac Preview or Affinity Photo) the effect is not showing. Any tip for me? Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dhsimmonds Posted June 10, 2017 Share #2 Posted June 10, 2017 I always understood that the image showing on the camera's screen or viewfinder is in fact the jpeg and NOT the RAW image. It would explain why you are unable to see it on your computer screen if you only open the RAW file. If you shoot jpeg and raw you should see your in-camera effects in the jpeg image but not the RAW image. In fact most cameras' work this way and it makes no difference whether you use a Mac or PC computer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moo Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share #3 Posted June 10, 2017 That makes sense; and I did expect that this is the reason for the Mac thumbnails working (as in showing the effects) and not the Preview. Perhaps the cam stores the thumbnail "inside" the .rwl files. However what I really of course was hoping for is that the effects set on the camera are "stored" in the .rwl files (the settings used) so I can continue to tweak those effects on my Mac. I did come to the conclusion of setting the cam to .jpg when needed (storing the effects) but I just simply do not like compression algorithms in my pictures as I one day perhaps then are "stuck" with jpg on an exceptional shot. ;-) A man can dream! haha. Thanks for the post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham (G4FUJ) Posted July 7, 2017 Share #4 Posted July 7, 2017 Always good to dream! That's how I spend most of my photo time Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Braun Posted July 7, 2017 Share #5 Posted July 7, 2017 That makes sense; and I did expect that this is the reason for the Mac thumbnails working (as in showing the effects) and not the Preview. Perhaps the cam stores the thumbnail "inside" the .rwl files. However what I really of course was hoping for is that the effects set on the camera are "stored" in the .rwl files (the settings used) so I can continue to tweak those effects on my Mac. I did come to the conclusion of setting the cam to .jpg when needed (storing the effects) but I just simply do not like compression algorithms in my pictures as I one day perhaps then are "stuck" with jpg on an exceptional shot. ;-) A man can dream! haha. Thanks for the post. It's simple: a digital image is created in two steps. Step 1 generates the RAW without any consideration of the camera settings besides ISO, Aperture, and Shutter speed. Step 2 generates the JPGs from that RAW, either in camera (within about one tenth of a second) under consideration of the camera settings or with a photo processing software like Adobe outside the camera. Both procedures leave the RAW untouched. Thus neither camera settings nor photo software settings have any influence onto the RAW. They just use the RAW as a starting point for generating a JPG. Andreas Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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