Resolution in Apple Photos app

[kiwidad]

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I in my ignorance have been using Photos as a convenient way to share photos.  

Bad idea!

anything you share from photos gets resized. Longest side is reduced to 2000 pixels

Leica, can you pay attention and create an app I can connect to my M11 from my Mac and download images … please!

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[elmars]

 

What exactly did you do? Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding.

1.

You can connect the M11 to your Mac. However, it will not be recognised as a hard drive; you need a programme that understands PTP. The Apple Photos app on Mac understands this, as does Lightroom. This means you can import directly from the camera into these programmes using a USB-C cable. However, this can only be done from within these programms and – importantly – the camera must be set to PTP in the menu under Camera Settings.

2.

How have you transferred photos from your camera to your iPhone up to now? Wirelessly using the Leica Photos app? What settings did you use for this? There is a preview option, which only transfers small preview files that are roughly the size you specified. Then you can transfer the full image or both.

3.

What exactly do you mean by sharing? Email, WhatsApp, social media? Some of these reduce the file size.

 

 

[andybarton]

Am I missing something here?

Why not just copy the images from the SD car onto a hard drive? You could use ImageCapture or Lightroom, or just drag and drop them.

[Chris W]

As 'a convenient way to share photos' Apple Photos is fine. People generally don't want to receive large files in emails or texts.

I've processed DNG in CaptureOne, exported to jpg and sent them to friends and the quality between that and Apple generated jpgs is marginal at most.

With the M11 you can connect to the Leica FOTOS app wirelessly and transfer DNG and jpg. You can connect the M11 to aMac with a USB cable and transfer your files using Android File Share (free app), or just insert the SD card into your Mac or card reader and transfer that way.

For quick sharing I generally transfer to Leica FOTOS on my phone and then process in ApplePhotos or Capture One Mobile. there is a Lightroom mobile too.

Edited Sunday at 03:00 PM by Chris W

[jaapv]

How are you going to lose anything by a compression to 2000 pixels on social media? There is not one phone with an unscaled screen resolution over 1000 pixels, most far less, and you will be lucky to find an iPad over 1500. 

[nykv]

1 hour ago, jaapv said:

How are you going to lose anything by a compression to 2000 pixels on social media? There is not one phone with an unscaled screen resolution over 1000 pixels, most far less, and you will be lucky to find an iPad over 1500. 

Hi Jaap, this thread might be of interest to new Leica owners? To be found outside of the Bar, in a section where it does make sense to look, for someone browsing or searching, with the same or a similar question. 

[kiwidad]

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3 hours ago, elmars said:

 

What exactly did you do? Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding.

1.

You can connect the M11 to your Mac. However, it will not be recognised as a hard drive; you need a programme that understands PTP. The Apple Photos app on Mac understands this, as does Lightroom. This means you can import directly from the camera into these programmes using a USB-C cable. However, this can only be done from within these programms and – importantly – the camera must be set to PTP in the menu under Camera Settings.

2.

 

How have you transferred photos from your camera to your iPhone up to now? Wirelessly using the Leica Photos app? What settings did you use for this? There is a preview option, which only transfers small preview files that are roughly the size you specified. Then you can transfer the full image or both.

3.

What exactly do you mean by sharing? Email, WhatsApp, social media? Some of these reduce the file size.

 

 

Typically I use Leica fotos to connect and collect as I shoot.

this puts the images in photo. Those full resolution.

if I need to send images to someone I have just created a shared folder and the recipient can pull from there.

if the recipients wants to crop it sucks to crop an image!

I took photos for a local charity yesterday and the images have plenty of resolution to selectively crop but not when they have been downsized by sharing.. I did not realize apple did this and yanked the shared folder quickly.

when you add an image to a shared folder it is immediately downsized. I shot-several test rolls on my m6 and imported them to a shared folder and was distraught about how bad they looked till I learned about the downsizing.

The wireless aspect is the attraction to me as I don’t need to have the camera out to import. I don’t keep a memory card in the m11 so pulling the card means backing up internal to a card first.

what I would l8ke to see is wireless communications from a computer not just an iPad!

[kiwidad]

Does sharing via the Lightroom app send full resolution?

[elmars]

vor 10 Stunden schrieb kiwidad:

when you add an image to a shared folder it is immediately downsized.

Now I understand how you work. I've never used a shared folder, so I can't comment on that.

vor 10 Stunden schrieb kiwidad:

Does sharing via the Lightroom app send full resolution?

When you share folders, anyone you give permission to can access the files in that folder at the resolution available there. The question is how the file is stored in the folder. If the original photo was imported into Lightroom mobile, the original is stored in the Adobe Cloud. If you grant someone access, they can download the original. If the original photo was imported into Lightroom classic, only a jpg preview file is uploaded to the cloud (the original photo is on the computer), but this is sufficient for a good view on a large screen.

[Chris W]

A bigger question is how are you importing rolls of film from an M6 to your computer?

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17 hours ago, kiwidad said:

 

anything you share from photos gets resized. Longest side is reduced to 2000 pixels

 

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[LocalHero1953]

For sharing a quantity of images at full res, my alternatives are Dropbox and Google Drive, but mainly I use Wetransfer (I have a subscription, because I sometimes send large videos). The latter is no good if you want to give your 'clients' the option to pick and choose which image to download. I have received files from others via Swisstransfer, which has a 50Gb size limit for free (Wetransfer's limit is 2Gb for free). I have shared drives on Onedrive before, but it is occasionally glitchy - some recipients just don't seem able to connect.

My normal basic distribution is a Collection from Lightroom Classic (which has a 2000pixel long edge limit for downloading), but then send any files the recipient wants at full res via Wetransfer. The recipient can tag them on the Lightroom web page, which makes it easy to select them later for export and transfer at full res.

Edited Monday at 08:48 AM by LocalHero1953

[fotografr]

I have a SmugMug site and when I want to share photos with someone I do the post processing on my desktop, then upload them to an album I've created. With SmugMug, I have the option to make the album visible only to those with a link. When I email that link to people I want to share with, they can download any full size images they select directly from the album.  It's a very nice system.