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MacOS: can the built-in camera cough up raw images? #3

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JohnTigue opened this issue May 6, 2020 · 4 comments

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JohnTigue commented May 6, 2020 •

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Perhaps different things happen with camera-in-macOS-Photobooth compared to camera-in-Colab notebook take picture.

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JohnTigue commented May 6, 2020 •

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I mean, come on, that's an awfully suspiciously wide histogram.

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JohnTigue commented May 6, 2020 •

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Yeah, turns out macOS is processing the RAW image, which can be gotten at via iOS APIs: Capturing Photos in RAW Format

Still unknown: how to do that in macOS

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JohnTigue commented May 6, 2020 •

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Maybe the answer is in JavaScript-land: navigator.mediadevices.getusermedia.

In-browser RAW Processing: How We Did It OK, but not sure this is about taking pics.
How to display raw image data with html and javascript?
Taking still photos with WebRTC
https://github.com/zfedoran/dcraw.js
- https://github.com/meganz/dcraw.js

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Camera capture: higher res? #21

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JohnTigue commented Jun 11, 2020

The Photos app can handle RAW:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/personaltech/put-os-x-photos-in-the-raw-format.html

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