HDR update for Macs

[darinb]

We talked here earlier about the new HDR technologies for still photography. One large difficulty is displaying and sharing HDR images. Today's news is that Apple, with the MacOS 15.0 update, has made good progress.

I posted about this just now on my blog at

https://www.abiggercamera.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3338&action=edit

but the summary is as follows:

Quickview now displays HDR properly (but the Finder icons are not yet HDR).

Messages will display images in HDR once enlarged, but the small thumbnail embedded in the text conversation is not HDR.

Preview will display HDR images properly if opened directly by Preview--images embedded in PDFs are not HDR. Acrobat doesn't display HDR at all. I'm pretty sure we are waiting for the PDF standard to be updated and they have announced they are working on it but no timeline.

Safari does not yet support HDR (but surely it is coming soon) and Pages (which sometimes pretends to be a PDF/book creation program) does not support HDR. Mail does not yet support HDR (but, of course, attachments of HDR images can be transferred by mail, just not correctly displayed within Mail).

That's all I have found so far--progress!

--Darin

P.S. As always, you need an HDR monitor (1000 nits or more is best) in order to view HDR images. There is no way around this.

 

[SrMi]

Thanks for the update. I will wait a bit, as that is a "big" update from Sonoma to Sequoia.

For those who can see HDR, here is a nice example of how HDR can show highlight details that are otherwise hidden in SDR:

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

There is no need to have an Instagram account to see it. If you see HDR letters in the first image, then you are viewing it in HDR mode.

 

[darinb]

Thanks for the update. I will wait a bit, as that is a "big" update from Sonoma to Sequoia.

For those who can see HDR, here is a nice example of how HDR can show highlight details that are otherwise hidden in SDR:

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

There is no need to have an Instagram account to see it. If you see HDR letters in the first image, then you are viewing it in HDR mode.

fyi, I'm only seeing the HDR in Chrome, not Opera, which is odd....

--Darin

 

[SrMi]

Thanks for the update. I will wait a bit, as that is a "big" update from Sonoma to Sequoia.

For those who can see HDR, here is a nice example of how HDR can show highlight details that are otherwise hidden in SDR:

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

There is no need to have an Instagram account to see it. If you see HDR letters in the first image, then you are viewing it in HDR mode.

fyi, I'm only seeing the HDR in Chrome, not Opera, which is odd....

Maybe Instagram does something different when it detects Opera. They are still developing the HDR support.