Transferred raw file turns into .tif

Dear Rshchiu,

Thanks for posting your question here, I will be happy to help you.

Have you tried reducing the size of the image before transferring? Sometimes if the file is to large it can't read the image in such a large format so sometimes you have to scale it down a little to allow your device to read it.

Our app transfers photos in PNG, GIF and JPG formats. We can only transfer RAW files from iDevice to computer, not computer to iDevice (we are working on an update to fix this). As far as the naming scheme, our app can only transfer photos. We can't rename files.

I hope this helps!

Please let me know if you have any more questions!

Kind Regards,

Amber
Photo Transfer App

Hello,

Just to clarify this answer, as of v3.2 you can transfer photos in RAW format from computer to device. Our app takes your file and transfers it exactly as it is stored on your computer and we use the Programming interfaces provided by Apple to save to the 'Photos' app.

The 'Photos' app should respect the format of the photo as well as the file extension but maybe the format is not compatible and that's why is renaming/transforming the photo when saving it to the 'Photos' app. I'm not familiar with the PhotoRaw app but all apps should be able to access the files stored on the 'Photos' app intact, maybe that's a question to them.

Let us know if you have any other question or comment.

Best regards,

Enrique
Photo Transfer App

Hi,

Thank you for the quick responses. There are a couple of things I would like to clarify.

"as of v3.2 you can transfer photos in RAW format from computer to device" - Does that mean transferring raw from computer to iDevice is now supported?

I did verify the file is transferred exactly as is, except that the file was renamed. The raw file is a .nef taken from a Nikon 5000. I would imagine that it is supported by iOS, is it not? If so, why would the extension be renamed?

Thanks again for you time.

I have the same problem -- files stored as .NEF on the computer are transferred to the ipad at full size, but are stored with the .TIF extension rather than the .NEF extension found on the camera. This makes them unavailable to other apps that expect .NEF. The idevice can manage .NEF files, as they're successfully imported through the ipad CCK card reader (and successfully edited). Is there no hope of storing the files with the correct .NEF extension? Is this an SDK limitation??

Thanks!