I used to use Halide for a while, and have tried Lightroom’s camera as well. Both are excellent for taking RAW photos. Unfortunately it seems like neither are capable of taking RAW 48MP photos, they’re both limited to 12MP. Maybe it’s an API thing that Apple skipped

I think that’s what I don’t understand about ProRaw… if the photo can’t be processed then why process it at all? I’d rather have a super noisy image that retains true sensor data than a “processed” image that loses all its detail.

What I’m trying to understand here is whether this is a bug (it must be, right?) or expected behavior. Unfortunately there’s no way of getting a regular RAW file out of the 48MP sensor, as far as I can tell

I’m sure the 12MP version also has some processing but it’s at least usable. The 48MP photo is just a blurry overprocessed blob.

I did some more searching online and have found others complaining about denoising in ProRaw but haven’t seen complaints specifically about 48MP ProRaw

First photo is 48MP ProRaw; second is 12MP ProRaw

Both shot on the native camera app, nothing fancy turned on (not night mode, etc). I brought both into Lightroom (iOS), turned sharpening and noise reduction to 0, and bumped exposure +3.0 for emphasis.

Why does the 48MP photo look like it has been aggressively de-noised?

Curious if this is happening to anyone else. I downloaded a 48MP sample from one of 9to5Mac’s articles and it has the same problem, though the author doesn’t seem to have noticed.