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We need an amen emoji.I’m not updating to High Sierra. I havent even updated to Sierra on my Mac Mini. The thought of a total file system change makes me giddy.
I thought High Sierra was excellent.
Sony and Canon support HEIF, which is what led me to ask the question. I can choose between jpeg and HEIF, including RAW with either. Never even heard of it before.I must say that I use my Fuji's OOC jpegs for everything short of printing, in >90% of the shots. If HEIF were to replace that with higher quality, smaller size files, I would be fine with that.
Given the 30 year legacy of jpeg files, even if all devices started capturing only HEIF tomorrow, jpegs would still need to be supported by browsers at least for pretty much eternity. Editing software would have no reason not to support jpeg either, so our jpeg only files will undoubtedly be safe for decades to come.
AFAIK, 4 years after that article, it's still only Apple devices capturing HEIF files?
Interesting, I completely missed that. But it bodes well for HEIF's future. Btw, the HEIF/HEIC dual acronym really ought to be resolved sometime soon.Sony and Canon support HEIF, which is what led me to ask the question. I can choose between jpeg and HEIF, including RAW with either. Never even heard of it before.
The more the merrier, if it truly is a better fileLooks like the new Nikon doesn't. I did some quick searches and couldn't find any others. I found some info from 2020 that implied HEIF was one of Fuji's top priorities
Apparently you need to download a codec and then Windows devices can read HEIC files just fine.As a side note, you can save in HEIF on MS but maybe not read it? I did a comparison shot and my work computer won't open the HEIF, but that may be due to the customizing our overzealous IT department does. I'll try at home.
The existing images will not magically convert to a new better format. JPEG will live on even if it stops being the preferred format for new image sharing. Regular graphics viewers will support JPEG for the rest of my lifetime & there will doubtless be JPEG viewers available throughout my childrens lifetimes too.Eventually JPEG will die, just like MP3 pretty much has now.
If we get a new format that has better quality, takes up less space and is widely adopted, what's not to like?