@variablepulserate Image Capture can get the Halide RAW pics off the phone onto the Mac. I have used Pixelmator Pro, Affinity 2, GraphicConverter 12 and Photos to play with the images.
@variablepulserate If you haven’t already done so, check out the Halide iPhone app. The latest version adds the ability to choose Process Zero, which disables the normal iPhone photo processing features and takes a single picture only (unless you choose RAW as well). More info here: https://apple.news/A9a4kTsVxRgm16ECByFHCoQ
@matigo I recall paying A$140 20 years ago for a 256 MB CompactFlash caed and that was cheap. About six months earlier Sony released its first 1 GB device, a MemoryStick. It cost A$1500.
More fiddling with the old Olympus camera revealed I had NOT set it up properly to create enlarged images. On the regular SHQ mode I can get up to 185 x 4MP shots on a 512 MB XD card. Now I have successfully dialled in the SHQ Enlarged mode, this maximum drops to 91 x 7MP shots.
Really neat how the elderly 4MP camera can spit out 7MP images.
Out and about yesterday (Tuesday) again with the old Olympus camera. I visited an Urban Forest park, a scrap of bushland created 39 years ago when an old railway line was closed. The park is quite small, around 70 metres wide and 550 metres long. It runs between a busy arterial road and a major highway.
I had been accessing Murasaki on my Mac mini via a Safari site-specific browser (web app), but for some reason it wouldn't allow me to upload photos: the upload button did not respond. The SSB feature came with Sonoma, before that macOS version came out I used an app called Web catalog to create such SSBs. So I recreated Murasaki on Web Catalog and the resulting SSB allws me to upload pics.
This is an example of the photos taken by the Olympus C750UZ camera. I used the SHQ Enlarged photo setting which fiddles the 4MP image into an 8MP one. The some modification to this photo was to straighten it.
I've taken the shots off the old camera. Three were taken specifically with about 30% overlap with a view to making a panorama. I use Panorama Stitcher Mini from the Mac app store, this is the free version, it's limited to stitching 5 images. Here's the finished image created from three photos of 2.4 MB each.
