JPEG XL in iPhone 16 Pro Yields Incredible Results
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Instead I always see tons of articles about how this will help its case on the web. This one doesn’t but several others have done so and hit the front page here.
They use it as a codec internally but you’re not embedding RAW images on websites.
Apple still use HEIF/HEIC as their image format for compressed shooting and sharing.
> The biggest update for me personally this year is the new JPEG XL compression for RAW images. This means I can take far more RAW images than before without worrying about instantly filling up my phone or cloud storage. Even when increasing or decreasing the images by multiple stops of light, the data in the JPEG XL images is all there, even at 25% of the file size. Wildly impressive.
But most of us work around this with a $2.99/mth iCloud+ subscription which gets us 200GB storage on the cloud. Not a deal but a trivial enough cost to not worry about running out of storage.
As a non pro user, this is perfectly ok for storing all of my 33k photos since 2007.
I pay 99 cents/month for a well integrated system that has never lost my data.
What alternatives provide that convenient service?
Yes, I could buy a giant HD. No I do not want to run a backup service.
Obviously is jpeg XL better than jpeg.
It's just that the support is shit
libvips has now good support for jxl, it has (since 8.16) support for EXIF data in jxl files as well. All FOSS projects can now use this to kickstart their jxl support.
In the corporate world, well, we’re all waiting for Google (Chrome) and microsoft (Windows) basically. I think the rest is on board, Apple, Adobe, etc.
> the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust
On the delaying tactic, you might be right, I want to be cautiously optimistic =)