Photolab 2 and iPhone 11 ProCamera DNG

It’s amusing that in the two years since the split DxOMark have become obsessed with cellphones and DxO has stopped supporting new ones. Adding the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max files would open a wide new market and please many of your existing users. The iPhone 11 is really the first cellphone (along with the Huawei Mate 30) since the Nokia 1020 which shoots at a level that processing is worthwhile.

The barrier with the iPhone 11 is that Apple’s own processing (computational photography) beats RAW + hand processing in most use cases (Smart HDR, Deep Fusion, Night Mode). There are situations with good light where RAW + PhotoLab would be very helpful.

In the meantime, fellow DxO PhotoLab photographers, Darkroom is a pretty fantastic iOS tool and it’s less than €10. The tools aren’t nearly as deep as PhotoLab but they are sensibly laid out and yield good results. The workflow is not disruptive or foreign to a PhotoLab user. I have yet to find serious perspective correction yet but there is a FilmPack-lite filter system built-in.

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