You can see that the photo on the right is slightly flatter than the jpeg, which is better for editing. The photo on the left was shot in jpeg and the photo on the right in ProRAW. That’s one of the big differentiators between Apple’s raw format and those that you’ll get from a typical DSLR.
ProRAW goes beyond the typical image info included in a normal raw file, however, because it includes Apple-specific data that relates back to its features like Smart HDR and Deep Fusion. Apple and Android phones already offered access to regular DNG files through some advanced apps like Adobe Lightroom, but the files didn’t offer much of an advantage over the smaller jpegs. That’s actually an upgrade in compatibility over most of the major camera manufacturers like Sony, Canon, and Nikon, all of which use proprietary raw formats that don’t typically work with common editing programs right away. It uses the Digital Negative (DNG) format for its base, which is a common standard that most image editing software can read straight away. Stan Horaczek What is Apple’s new ProRAW format?Īpple can sometimes take flack for introducing new file formats that aren’t very compatible with different platforms, but ProRAW isn’t like that. You’ll notice the difference in file formats when you start editing your photos. The same basic idea applies if you’re trying to pull up the shadows without introducing lots of ugly speckles known as digital noise. So, if you blow out part of the sky in your photo, you may be able to pull the highlights back a bit in editing using bits that the jpeg version of the photo would have trashed. Raw images hold onto a lot more of that extra image data.
That’s fine if you’re just snapping and sharing photos, but try editing that photo in an advanced program like Adobe Lightroom and you’ll miss that extra data. Jpegs are great because they’re relatively small in terms of storage and they’re almost universally compatible, but it’s what’s known as a “lossy” format, which means it tries to jettison as much of that original image data as possible without affecting the overall appearance of the image too much. When you push the camera button on your device, it captures more information than it needs for a final file-lots more. Right now, you’re almost certainly shooting jpegs (or the less-popular HEIC format) on your smartphone even though raw has been available in some form or another for more than half a decade. It’s not on by default-you’ll have to go into Settings > Camera > Formats > Apple ProRAW to enable it-but it could open up a lot more potential from your smartphone photos once enabled. Tucked in with its typical array of bug fixes and new features, the company rolled out its new ProRAW photo format for the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max.
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