Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for this, Brian. I am not commenting on the photography bit, but rather the second half of your message. I will share the specification document with my daughter who, in desperation due to the Covid pandemic, started studying her second degree in 2020, in computer science. I am sure she will enjoy this. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 30 Sep 2022, at 21:08, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote: > > I don't feel disagreed with. Our experiences are different, but neither of > us is wrong. > I have 3 comments. > > 1. On my iPhone (a 12 Pro Max) under Settings->Camera->Formats there is an > option to 'Show camera control for ProRAW'. I have that turned on. When I > am shooting something where resolution matters, I click the "RAW" button > that option enables (on the top right of the app screen). You all know > what RAW format is and does. > > 2. HEIC is a container format. (That's what the C stands for.) That means > it can have more than one edition of the image inside the file. It sounds > to me like your app might accidentally have used the preview image and not > the main image. I use Adobe Camera Raw to poke around inside HEIC files to > see what's there. > > 3. Apple is a computer company. They all make undocumented changes. It is > necessary to be cautious whenever you "update" anything. > > In 1969 I experienced what remains to this day the ultimate "we are a > computer company and we will change whatever we want whenever we want" > event. Nothing has surprised me since. > My employer had an IBM 7094 computer running IBSYS 13 for its operating > system. Like all such installations in 1969, there was a purchase contract > with a warranty. If the system misbehaved, IBM would solve the problem and > fix it free of charge. Every couple of years the contract would come up > for renewal, and the scaredy-cat owners always paid the money to renew the > software warranty. > What it meant to "behave" or "misbehave" was that there was a 100-page > document specifying what IBSYS 13 was supposed to do, and if you could > demonstrate to IBM that it was not doing that, they were contractually > obligated to fix it. I may well have been the only employee there who had > read and understood the entire Specification document. > In late 1969, we got a letter from IBM saying that they were issuing a > new Specification document. This was before the era of FedEx, so it was > hand-carried by a courier all the way from Armonk NY. My boss gave it to > me to read. It consisted of one sentence: "The full specification of IBSYS > version 13 is defined by its behavior." > Some digital packrat has saved the last real specification document. See > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/C28-6248-7_v13_IBSYS_Dec66.pdf > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information