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Francesco24
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February 27, 2025
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Lr Mobile on iPhone 16/16e

  • February 27, 2025
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I have an Xs and am considering buying new iPhone. It is not important to me to shoot at 48mpx but I am interested that Lightroom Mobile also uses 2x focal length as “native” when I shoot in DNG (i.e. a RAW file that has the 2x framing, albeit with fewer mpixels). With the 16 Pro surely Lr considers 0.5x, 1x and 5x because they are all optical focal lengths (just as on the Xs it can use 1x and 2x). I was wondering if the 2x “cropped” of 16 and 16e is also usable when shooting with Lr utilising RAW/DNG. Thank you.

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Charlie.D
Inspiring
February 27, 2025

I wouldn't expect any digital croppping that the native camera does to be available in the LR Mobile in-app camera, as that uses only optical lenses.  Since the 2x digital crop isn't available in the LR Camera for iPhone 16 Pro Max, I would assume it will be the same case for the 16e, even when that new phone is officially supported in a future LR app release.

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    Francesco24Author
    Participant
    February 27, 2025

    So you confirm that with the 16 Pro Max Lightroom Mobile only uses the 0.5x, 1x and 5x cameras.

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    Charlie.D
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2025

    I have the 16 Max, and that's how it seems to me.  I am not a developer, and I'm just comparing appearances/lenses between native and LR cameras.  I don't know if this is a design choice, or a limitation of the capture APIs that Apple chooses to make public.  They do seem to reserve certain functionality for their private APIs

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