With, say LR or C1P, you may have 1,000 raws form a shoot, with some tweaking and edits, but only a few processed to TIFF/JPG.
So in that scenario, would you convert all images from RAW to TIFF/JPG? The challenge I see is that, if Mac OS isn't your raw editor (not sure I'd want that anyway), then you will have difficulty with image rendering of RAWs processed by a different raw processor unless you process them to TIFF/JPG. In other words, it would actual FIND stuff. The Finder would have special tools built in for photos, and also for PDFs, music, video, etc etc. So you wouldn't have to use a separate DAM or photo browser to find photos or mess with their metadata. On a Mac, that would mean a huge revamp of the Finder, which needs it anyway. Photo management should be part of the OS, and completely integrated into it. But these aren't really worth a new application.Īt least with Lr, I think the whole concept should disappear. The previews off the card are lame, and not enough info is shown, and it could be faster. That would be worth a whole new application.Īnd a better ingestion method than the import function on Lr. Since Ps has been around for ages, and there's only so much you can do with that type of graphic, I'm wondering what would be different.Īs for my wish list, I want image recognition, but that's probably a long way off. I'm curious about what else you'd be looking for, since I don't think I've ever used all the tools in Ps. Still waiting for something original and better than PS/LR. The delta between Adobe and Apple is significantly smaller for Canon and Nikons than for the rest. And on ILCs from Canon and Nikon since 2011, the median delta is only one day, ie, for almost 50% of those cameras Apple is faster than Adobe.
If you look at Microsoft, they also provide raw support in Windows without having anything near a professional raw converter or DAM (they bought one of the latter and then let it wither). Only for Nikon and Canon does it support all compacts.Īpple just added the Nikon D810a, ie, I think they are still committed to same level of camera support they had five years ago. Apple supports almost all premium compacts (exceptions are Fuji X10, XF1, Pentax MX, Q10).Apple last added a Samsung camera in December 2011 (wonder why )).Outside of MF, Apple supports basically all ILCs (DSLR + mirrorless) with only a few exceptions (Pentax K-O1, Ricoh GRX, Canon 60Da).Apple only supported selected MF cameras and after 2010 stopped adding any additional models.Though it does support most of them via DNG. Apple does not support any Casio, Ricoh, Sigma, Phase One, Mamiya or Kodak cameras (exception SLR/n).Apple supports only about 2/3 as many cameras as Adobe.Below is a summary of comparing the complete list of supported cameras by Apple and Adobe from two years ago: They will certainly keep offering raw conversion at the current level (they've stepped back a little several years back when they stopped adding MF cameras, as well as Samsung camera, read into that whatever you want).
Now that Aperture is out and Photos is not professional, will Apple be providing any more professional raw conversion software of their own? And if not, then how motivated will they be to provide high quality OS-level digital camera raw updates in the future when there are so many other companies providing a choice of conversion styles?