Halide Linux Digital Workflow with RawTherapee

Phone cameras have steadily been improving over the last decade but one issue for serious photographers has been the ability to obtain full control of their camera settings and then the ability to obtain a RAW image for imrproved processing.



The recent iPhone Pro Max models have Apple ProRAW and can be enabled by default for the iOS camera, but if you have the non-Pro Max models you will need specific camera apps to allow you to make the most of the camera sensor.

The Halide MkII app has been a very good camera app that gives us RAW images - coupled with the OpenSource RAW editor RawTherapee we have, in my opinion, the basis for acceptable iPhone digital workflow.

VM'ing: Copy music to/from IOS from Linux via VMs

Recently I've needed to spend more time using the Fedora installation on my aging 2010 Dell Vostro however I've found various occasions where I wanted to copy music files to my iPhone/IOS 9.x/10.x devices from Linux.

In years gone by Linux's recommended options for IOS music management included gtkpod, banshee and rhythmbox but none of these options work with my iPhone and Fedora. With my current Fedora 24 installation and IOS 9.x/10.x the only option would be to run a virtualised OS that supported iTunes via VMware or VirtualBox.

iOS upgrades and further hate for iTunes

There aren't too many things I hate about the iPhone but there are many around iTunes: the lock-ins, the inability to get data back out of the phone, the single point of failure (sync PC crashes, then what).



But I still kept my iPhone. However, the iOS 7 and iTunes 11.1.0 mess really does make me consider the alternatives.