The answer is that some camera apps take two shots! This wouldn’t be so bad if we had a way to view both images in our camera roll to see if they need a re-do, but as we've already discussed, most galleries filter them out. This makes them “invisible” until we get home, and is the subject of today’s discussion. Raw Capture Delay, And Lying JpegsĪs pointed out by XDA Senior Member Ashcunak, raw images don’t always match their jpeg “duplicates.” It’s true that your camera makes choices about color, saturation, and white balance while compressing to the smaller format, but that doesn’t explain how a blinking Christmas light can look “on” in one format, and “off” in the other. Why not stick to the jpeg preview generated by most cameras? First and foremost, those previews sometimes lie. Raw formats like DNG are TIFF-based, and don’t play well with most galleries. No amount of post-processing will fix blinking family members or poorly framed shots, so it’s essential that we see what we have captured. This brings us to viewers and lite editors. Why pay to sit on your phone for an hour when you can do the same thing for free with the precision of a mouse and keyboard? These are grainy images with no inherent color profiles, and will always look worse than pre-processed jpegs until they pass through an editing bay. The thing is that editing lossless files isn’t speedy or mobile regardless of platform.
Therefore, the question becomes one of paying $10 for the speed and mobility of your phone, or nothing to use the laptop you already know and love. On the one hand, a desktop license for the Adobe Creative Suite is more expensive than any Android app, but on the other, editors like the GIMP and Raw Therapee are industry standard tools that can be had for free.
My reservation with the paid suites is not quality, but cost. But don’t be fooled - the premium offerings like PhotoMate R2 are hell-bent on replacing your entire desktop workflow, and I have no doubt that they’re up to the task. Free or Paid? Despite the wealth of apps available, the only ones that tackle raw head-on are a handful of heavy-hitting suites with high price tags, and several freemium gallery and editor apps.
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