Shooting RAW format on your iPhone with iOS 10

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Hello my imaginary friends and thanks for popping by.
In a previous post, I said I'd go into the new iOS 10 feature that allows you to capture RAW images in the latest update to the mobile software.

Firstly, what is RAW?
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor.

TLDR; it's better :)

What format does Apple save the RAW image as?
Digital Negative (DNG) is a patented, open, non-free lossless raw image format written by Adobe used for digital photography.


How do I take a photo on my iPhone in RAW?

The first app that sprung up was Adobe Lightroom. It's a free iOS app that you can get via the app store.







Open the app once it's downloaded and head over to the camera option on the bottom right hand corner.



















 On the top middle of the screen, click the option little button that says "DNG" which will bring up the option for you to select either JPG or DNG.

















Boom! You've just captured a RAW photo.


A word of warning, these files will be a lot bigger than the normal iPhone photos so you're storage will run out a lot faster. You can upload the images to the cloud to free up some storage on your device.

Editing the photos can be done on the lightroom app itself.


Thanks for reading!
LLAP
Sam