Canon has ported a large chunk of its Digital Photo Professional (DPP) Raw processing software's feature set to mobile and launched the DPP Express app for Apple's iPad.
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The new app works in conjunction with Canon's Camera Connect app and offers a wide range of processing functions for Canon .CR3 Raw files and JPEG images. Files can be viewed, adjusted and saved to the cloud, a computer or your camera - all wirelessly.
The Camera Connect app, which also allows you to control the camera remotely, is used to wirelessly download images from your Canon camera to the iPad. Once on the tablet, images can then be processed and edited in DPP Express. The user interface has been designed with simplicity in mind and adjustment options include tone curves, picture settings, gamma levels and lens correction. All changes are applied in real time.
DPP Express also offers Multiple Editing Histories, allowing for several edited versions of the same image. Up to four editing histories let you compare effects and editing options on the same image and can be copied and pasted between files to apply the same workflow to more than one image.
The app is compatible with newer iPads and iPad Pro models running iOS 11. For more information on compatibility and features have a look at the Canon website. You can download DPP Express from the iOS App Store.
Wow ,developing new DPP,when they haven`t got the older version working yet!!!!! Still can`t see or edit cr2 photos from my cameras!!! But I should get an iOS. Really impressed Canon
I wonder what was the idea of not supporting CR2. They are encouraging everybody to ditch their current equipment and enter the new glorious EOS R / M50 era?
As someone who is new to Canon with the EOS R this has been working great so far. A nice perk to be able to edit the RAW files on my iPad which isn’t currently possible with the Lightroom CC app. Although it is a bit slow.
I wish Fujifilm would port their X RAW Studio to Android and iOS. An iPad Pro or Google Slate paired with X RAW Studio would be the perfect solution while on the go or travelling.
I think it would have been a better idea to spend the resources to add some usefull features to DPP, as microcontrast, dehaze, some basic local adjustment, improved noise reduction and a few more.
A computer genius friend of mine keeps telling me that the new iPads have far more computing horsepower than most laptops, though less RAM. If he’s correct does that really mean I would be able to process my files faster on an iPad than a “real” computer?
Not quite, but Apple do have a significant lead in getting low power ARM processors that compete head on with Intel core (and better than Atom/Celeron/Pentium processors that often come with comparably priced PCs and Chromebooks). Bring on the Intel free Mac!
Dear Canon, how could you be so stupid not to support CR2 Files ! This DPP Express App does not make any sense for a professional photographer. I will delete it just after one test ... ShutterSnitch and Lightroom Mobile is the way to go ! I am really surprised how bad you treat you customers. Thinking about the canceling of my Canon R order because you customer treatment is many me angry ! Still like my two 1DX MKII and don't like my two 5D MKV
@dirkmichael Give them time. DPP4.0 initially came out with a very limited set of supported cameras, causing many angry outbursts among Canon supporters at the time. But Canon kept working backwards on the compatibility list, and 4.8.30 now supports models going all the way back to D30 (yes, D30, from year 2000).
Great news. Canon might at the moment not be offering state of the art cameras but in the long run they tend to be good to rely on. Although I would not mind if they would soon try to close the technology gap for some features, although their dual pixel autofocus is really nice.
I am not a user of Canon, but this company always knows what customers want, and DPP for iOS is very big step... Now in fact all cameras on market can shoot great photos and even video, then the question is who will give to customers more comfort in work...
I ditched Lightroom Classic sometime ago. You know the story, as slow as a greyhound with two legs. Out of interest I tried Lightroom CC mobile on an iPad and liked it so much I bought an iPad Pro and then ditched my Mac.
Lightroom CC is really very good and processes RAW files and very fast on my iPad Pro. It is obvious to me at least that the days are numbered for Lightroom Classic.
Yup I understod that, and ofc they can't support all sorts of RAWs like PS CC in an iPad I guess, or, now when you can get an iPhone with half a TB in memory it shouldn't be impossible for an iPad should it?
What is next - Rasberry Pi, Chromebook or Wii? Agree with Graham - resources should have been used for improving desktop version (or new versions of EF 50/1.4 and EF 28/1.8)
It’s not “easy” it’s a crap pathetic restrictions in iOS and the reason I abandoned my iPad and iPhone. With OTG USB capabilities of android all connections is possible.
''intelligent enough'' is those who understand that a system can connect with everything, wifi - usb or whatever, is superior to a system that connect with a fewer ways.
Meh...I pay and use Adobe LR classics on my PC and LR mobile on my devices because you can keep your full library in Classic and work on LR mobile on the go... then get back home and easily have all your photos end up in your library with all your edits. Once you get the hang of the workflow that is.
No other software allows you to do that. I wish capture one, or serif or canon can provide something like that which isn’t iCloud based. At 20k + photos and going I ain’t paying that kind of money for full cloud storage.
If canon, Sony, serif or whoever we’re to provide an affordable non-perpetual license option I would take them. But. I proper DAM and seemless syncing... meh. Devices like the iPad and cloud have limit space.
You have option to link to the Canon OPA for 10GB + 15GB space and free of charge. I think its big enough for you. Also DPP dose not need time to import and you may save alteration without any hassles.
20k photos at 24 MB is about 480 GB. So how is 10 GB big enough for me? And why should I perpetually pay for it? Every single photographer out there that will want to shoot for many many years will run into a storage problem or issue. They will have to choose whether or not they want to tie themselves to a cloud. If edits are done in the cloud... how do they intend to ever migrate out of it with their edits intact?
@Stu 5 I fully understand the benefits of a cloud, and I sync using it for any active photos I want to edit, by taking advantage of adobe's base 20 GB, and both LR classic and CC. But with 400+ GB it is simply silly to put it all there. For the 60 euros a month or so to get 10 TB of storage I simply have a NAS at home. And for that kinda perpetual storage subscription I can basically get a new NAS every year.
Anyway. To each his own. I would love to hear back from pros on how they handle their massive libraries (if they use cloud).
i'm i crazy or you can't really use crw3 files directly from ipad on this app, it can be only imported from camera? trying at least test it with dpreview cr3 sample. no luck, lol.
well, definitely worth ios "usability", locked from the start..
Actually, I can't get any of the sliders to work at all for contrast, shadow etc on a Canon jpeg and I don't have CR3 only CR2 so what a waste of time. Am I dumb or can you folks get the sliders to work on a Canon JPEG? They are all greyed out.
The iOS photo viewer does still not allow to view the finest details of photo, a lower resolution image is displayed and you can't zoom enough... You need a separate App like "Big photo" to do that... The iPads have a formidable (the best) display but iOS is mediocre, it can't be considered a serious option... Wake up Apple...
100% zoom isn't enough as the display has pixels smaller than what the human eye can see ("Retina" display)... Install and try "Big Photo" to see what I mean, to see the difference... However, Big Photo isn't an album app, it's good just to open and look at a single photo...
Another flaw... iTumes reduces the resolution of the photos you transfer to your iPad... Why did Apple sell me a 256GB iPad??
iOS changes the file names, using 70's-like names... You need additional apps to see the EXIF data... You can't have folders and subfolders... I am a photographer who would like to use the fantastic iPad's display to show my work, but iOS is bad and I didn't find any good Photo Album App...
This is defiantly a step in the right direction. If standalone cameras are to survive they need to connect, "realtime" edit and share much better than they generally do today. I hope this pushes more companies, both camera makers and software makers to speed up the development in similar directions. The new Zeiss camera with built in LR is also a good example of what can be done.
Yep. We can talk all day about Nikon and Canon entering Mirrorless very late, mirror contra mirrorless etc. But what you bring up is another strong reason other brand’s been able to snatch market shares. Connectivity is everything to today (as a canon shooter it’s been quite a frustrating experience way too long)
"Applying" settings in "real time" has not been a problem for any soft- or hardware since digital cameras came along. but "rendering" those settings is a whole different story. ;-)
and while it says something about the software, it is more a problem of hardware and image size. btw iOS is not a real time OS by any means, so the whole advertising blurb is, well, a blurb. /clevermode:off
This is why Canon, regardless of how much hate there is for their sensors and the like, continues to win: They know how to target the right user base. Average joe/jane consumer photographer doesn't care about DXO or how many stops they can recover, they want intuitive menu systems, a great wifi implementation, and the ability to transfer directly to a smartphone. You want to attract people away from the convenience of using their smartphone to take pictures ? Give them a camera that becomes an extension of their smartphone. Image quality is pretty darn good across the board these days, what makes a system stand out for 90% of the market is ease of use, connectivity, and the like. Canon delivers with smart phone quality touch implementation, intuitive menu system, fold out flippy screens, and great connectivity. Smart move Canon...
Rather curiously doesn't support .CR2 files, which is probably about 500 Billion pictures... Also won't eat full-res 5Dsr JPEGs despite just about everything else being okay with them... (plus was testing on an iPad Pro, not the phone). If I had to guess I'd say it doesn't have DLO, which IMHO is the only reason to use DPP...
I hadn’t tried a CR2 yet and if that really is a no go then that seriously diminishes the functionality, and it is a silly choice. So much for my earlier heaps of praise. Even some of my recent smaller Canons that I use for travel where IOS processing would be most useful - the G1x Mark lll are CR2 so this no longer colours me as impressed at all.
Nows this is a start. Wish more camera makers would do the same. iPad and some Android devices (including Chrome OS) make for some nice quick editing on the go devices.
Right ? I think most of these so called "pros" would never make it without IBS, dual card slots and 5 stops of shadow recovery. I mean it's nice to have, but if you can't make a great image without it, the problem is you....
Oh wow. I recently started using Nikon's Capture NX-D to process RAW images and am loving the superior results . I hear Canon's DPP also produces the best results for Canon files. Hope Nikon keeps improving their software and gives us a iOS version as well.
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