Why and How to Shoot Raw
The Camera app can capture photos in raw format, though it’s a feature reserved only for Pro models since the iPhone 12 Pro. But what does that mean to shoot in raw?
When any camera—iPhone or traditional—takes a picture, the camera sensor records the light that hits it. That light is converted from pure data into a format that our eyes understand, assigning colors and brightness values to pixels to reproduce the image you captured. In most cases, that image is processed using algorithms designed to make the image look as you saw it. Then the image is compressed to conserve space and saved as a HEIF or JPEG file.
But let’s go back to the very first step: the light being absorbed by the sensor. When you shoot in raw format, ...
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