HEIF / HEIC support

[Henri-M11]

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Plan Leica in nächster Zeit das Format HEIF / HEIC statt oder zusätzlich zum alten JPG Format in die neueren Leica Kamera Firmware zu integrieren?

Danke Frédéric 

[Jan Jurgensen]

I asked the same question in another context - and got the following answer:

• heic is private format owned by Adobe
• it may not have a long life ahead of it

Actually, I had a lot of heic files that I had downloaded from the google cloud.

Using photoshop I made a batch convertion from heic to jpg. It took no time.

PS. I have reset the "fotos" app on my iPhone to store files en jpg format rather than heic. I opened the settings for 'fotos'  - opened the "optimize iPhone storage" from heic to other.

[3D-Kraft.com]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb Jan Jurgensen:

I asked the same question in another context - and got the following answer:

• heic is private format owned by Adobe
• it may not have a long life ahead of it

That answer was wrong. HEIF (usually stored with filename extension .heif or .heic) was developed / specified by the "Moving Picture Expert Group" (MPEG) and is an ISO/IEC standard. It provides more options (e.g. saving data with 10 bit per pixel) than JPEG.

Speculations about its life cycle currently seem to make little sense.

Whether Leica will integrate it into the camera firmware in the future is also impossible to say today. At least the Leica LUX app supports it.

[jdlaing]

HEIC is more of a container for storing images and video files with that extension for iOS.

Edited December 27, 2024 by jdlaing

[jgeenen]

JPG and HEIC are totally different animals. While JPG has been designed for efficiency and is - thanks to libjpeg and others - available on every platform, HEIC is a file format that allows for more flexibility and capabilities. Many viewing platforms do not have builtin HEIC viewing capabilities yet. Effectively, HEIC is more comparable to DNG than to JPG.

A valid question therefore could be to ask Leica for HEIC instead or additional to DNG, but JPG should stay for maximum compatibility.