This is a repost from the Mac forum. My mistake.
My wife has an iPad Pro Gen 3 12.9" (iOS 18.2.1) that works great. She has always been able to view the Camera card RAW files (Canon CR2, CR3) in the iOS folders on the media card and zoom in to check critical focus. She can zoom in close enough that it's obvious it's not the thumbnail, but the actual raw file. She could even see individual grains. This surprised me, but it worked, and made for an incredibly convenient workflow. I've always been a bit jealous of this on my windows machine.
The workflow was... Attach the camera card via a media reader, navigate thru "Files" to the folder she wants, open the folder to see thumbnails, click on one thumbnail to bring it full screen, then swipe between photos and zoom in to do a critical focus check.
Suddenly, it no longer works. She got home, opened the files and thought every photo was soft so we suspected lens/camera damage. When we copied a couple older files that USED to look good in the iOS back to the camera card, they were soft as well. So SOMETHING on the iPad changed.
Now she says the showing the folder of small images takes a lot less time, but swiping between full screen images is slower and the images are all equally soft when zoomed in.
To ME, it appears that the iOS used to read the raw files rather than the camera file thumbnails (thus the longer folder open time), maybe creating its own thumbnail. But then it would use the better, self-created thumbnails to view the file full screen. I'm completely guessing, but this is what it SEEMS.
Some details. She is NOT using the preview app, just the iOS folders. We have loaded files taken a while ago to see if something in the camera changed but they were soft as well. Multiple cameras, multiple media cards.
This started within the last 2 months. I don't see any way to find an iOS update history on the iPad, so I don't know if it corresponds to updates. Maybe there's a preference to view raw files or thumbnails to allow faster viewing? Maybe using Airdrop type file compression even though it's local? Maybe a preference got changed accidentally?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
My wife has an iPad Pro Gen 3 12.9" (iOS 18.2.1) that works great. She has always been able to view the Camera card RAW files (Canon CR2, CR3) in the iOS folders on the media card and zoom in to check critical focus. She can zoom in close enough that it's obvious it's not the thumbnail, but the actual raw file. She could even see individual grains. This surprised me, but it worked, and made for an incredibly convenient workflow. I've always been a bit jealous of this on my windows machine.
The workflow was... Attach the camera card via a media reader, navigate thru "Files" to the folder she wants, open the folder to see thumbnails, click on one thumbnail to bring it full screen, then swipe between photos and zoom in to do a critical focus check.
Suddenly, it no longer works. She got home, opened the files and thought every photo was soft so we suspected lens/camera damage. When we copied a couple older files that USED to look good in the iOS back to the camera card, they were soft as well. So SOMETHING on the iPad changed.
Now she says the showing the folder of small images takes a lot less time, but swiping between full screen images is slower and the images are all equally soft when zoomed in.
To ME, it appears that the iOS used to read the raw files rather than the camera file thumbnails (thus the longer folder open time), maybe creating its own thumbnail. But then it would use the better, self-created thumbnails to view the file full screen. I'm completely guessing, but this is what it SEEMS.
Some details. She is NOT using the preview app, just the iOS folders. We have loaded files taken a while ago to see if something in the camera changed but they were soft as well. Multiple cameras, multiple media cards.
This started within the last 2 months. I don't see any way to find an iOS update history on the iPad, so I don't know if it corresponds to updates. Maybe there's a preference to view raw files or thumbnails to allow faster viewing? Maybe using Airdrop type file compression even though it's local? Maybe a preference got changed accidentally?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
