Hello, Photographer here to maybe clear up some confusion over what RAW is, and why photographers prefer to shoot in RAW. I'm going to refer to whitebalance as WB fyi.
RAW is not TIFF. RAW allows you to essentially do non-destructive post processing to your photos. This means cleaner sharpness and contrast adjustments, WB fixing, and wider dynamic range (shadows and highlights). RAW gives you full control over the entire WB spectrum so that no matter what WB you shoot in you can correct it in post processing to perfection. If you tried taking an extremely blue(WB too cold) or orange (WB too warm) JPEG photo to its correct temperature, you will not have good results(at least not nearly as good as RAW). While shooting in RAW I am able to recover well over exposed photos back to where they should be, as well insanely underexposed photos that most people would write off too dark to use. RAW gives you approximately 2 extra stops of exposure in each direction. I can give examples if need be. Do any Android phones capture in RAW? I read some people in this discussion denying it was possible. The HTC One X uses the RAW format to capture images and process them in phone, but they don't give you an option to save the image to your phone as RAW. I think with the right developers they could give the user access to the RAW images that the One X captures and be able to save that to their phone so they could do editing to the photo from their computer(or phone) at a later time. What is the appeal? I strongly believe that if any android phones could capture and save RAW images, it would be a huge appeal to professional and hobby photographers. Not every photographer wants to lug a heavy DSLR everywhere (especially in casual situations) with them to get quality photos that they can do precision processing to later. Also RAW would help make up for the lack of manual camera settings on android phones by being able to recover photos with incorrect exposure or WB. -Sam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
