Personally I find HEIC from my iPhone 12mini a PAIN! Most are for sharing on Facebook so I have to import them to my computer, import them to Photos, then export them as .jpg to where they;'re needed. A pain!
I sync my photos using iCloud; all I need to do is go to facebook on the browser and it opens up Finder when I want to upload a photo, and on the sidebar is "photos". It'll read them directly from HEIC format.Personally I find HEIC from my iPhone 12mini a PAIN! Most are for sharing on Facebook so I have to import them to my computer, import them to Photos, then export them as .jpg to where they;'re needed. A pain!
HEIC is a closed format which needs a license and then, pay for it.HEIC, great format, saves a ton of space. 12MP photo on my iPone is only 600 something kb.
But that's it.
Nobody is taking advantage of the tiny file size, not even Apple. Proof?
iCloud Photos shared album will still resize your photo into measly 3MP in JPEG, which has larger filesize than the original higher-res HEIC. Super dumb. You would think with iPhones as old as the 6s being capable viewing heic, Apple would just take advantage of it. Nope. You have amazing camera on your iPhone? Tough luck, your family can only see 3MP and 720p of your photos and videos, in old formats that takes more space. Genius Apple!
How about Google? I tried uploading to Google Photos as a shared album. Google stored it as is, heic full 12MP. Okay, good start. But when you save it or download it on your Android phone, Google "kindly" auto-coverts it to JPEG that is more than twice as large in file size. WTF? No options anywhere in Google Photos to prevent this.
Gee these silicon valley companies cannot even figure this out after all these years?
So basically what you are saying Companies don't like the subscription model eitherHEIC is a closed format which needs a license and then, pay for it.
Something companies dont want to do.
Companies tend to have a lot more common sense than consumers. That’s how they make money. And by not paying for solutions to nano-problems.So basically what you are saying Companies don't like the subscription model either
I'll predict that twenty years from now, jpeg will still be a commonly-used graphics file format.
And that by then, HEIC will be but a "forgotten memory" of the past...
I'll predict that twenty years from now, jpeg will still be a commonly-used graphics file format.
ok, so I have a Canon R5, and been shooting in RAW + JPEG format .. for whatever reason.
I need to look at the menu system and see if there's a RAW + HEIC format in there....
FWIW, Fuji can do RAW+HEIF (I do on my X-H2). However, Fuji HEIF are not HDR/HLG, which is disappointing.At least on Fuji, I'm not aware of it being an option. You can shoot HEIF to your heart's content, but not RAW+HEIF.
won't disagree, yet I wonder. Twenty years ago I was still shooting 4x5 on assignment, clients would still pay for lab costs and scanning. All my work was on Zip drives. internet slooooooow - hey day of FedexI'll predict that twenty years from now, jpeg will still be a commonly-used graphics file format.