In response to each 9to5Mac and MacRumors, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions (and solely the Professional fashions, it appears) will help capturing photos within the new JPEG XL format. Whereas help from JPEG XL isn’t listed on Apple’s specs, each websites declare to have seen code confirming it.
Customers will be capable to choose JPEG XL Lossless or JPEG XL Lossy compression, and 9to5Mac even has Apple’s estimates for file sizes with every format:
- 11 MB for JPEG-XL Lossy ProRAW at 12 MP
- 18 MB for JPEG-XL Lossless ProRAW at 12 MP
- 20 MB for JPEG-XL Lossy ProRAW at 48 MP
- 46 MB for JPEG-XL Lossless ProRAW at 48 MP
By comparability, Apple’s ProRAW format (which makes use of the Adobe Digital Detrimental format .dng) is round 75MB for a 48 MP picture. So lossless JPEG-XL is round 40 % smaller.
What’s JPEG XL?
JPEG-XL doesn’t stand for “further giant” as you may assume. The Joint Photograph Consultants Group has moved to utilizing X on all their new codecs (JPEG XR, JPEG XT, JPEG XS) and the L stands for Legacy. JPEG-XL is meant to be the primary JPEG picture normal for the subsequent 20 years or extra, simply as JPEG has been so in style for the final 30 years.
JPEG-XL is a quick, low-complexity (straightforward and quick to encode and decode by fashionable requirements), royalty-free and open-source format that was formally adopted by the JPEG group in 2020. It takes the JPEG format into the trendy period with help for big picture resolutions, HDR, lossy or lossless encoding, as much as 4099 channels (a number of shade channels, alpha/transparency, thermal, no matter), animation, a mode for artificial imagery like charts and graphs, and extra.
It ought to produce each smaller sizes and far increased high quality than present JPEG, and can doubtless beat codecs like HEIC at each compression and high quality.
Apple added help for viewing JPEG-XL photos final 12 months in iOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and watchOS 10. It’s not but extensively supported in picture enhancing instruments like Photoshop, however many firms have expressed public help for it.
