Most Mac users use iPhoto to organise and view pictures, or an alternative such as Picasa, or software included with their DSLR (eg Digital Photo Professional with Canons). These work beautifully with jpegs and other similarly small files. If you want to shoot in RAW, however, these apps start to struggle when you want to flick through your latest uploads, especially on Macs other than the super-fast.
For this reason, Green Volcano Software has come up with their own alternative, Photon.
Photon does not do editing, and its organisational abilities are very limited. Photon merely focuses on RAW image viewing. Whereas iPhoto and its competitors produce only jpeg previews for your RAW images, only revealing the RAW file when it is called up, Photon loads the RAW files immediately, as they are uploaded, ready to be scrutinised. The result of this simplicity is speed and ease of use.
When pictures are uploaded, they do take a little while to load, but not noticeably longer than loading jpegs in any of the apps named above. When they have loaded, it is wonderful to see your RAW files in full and glorious detail, and metadata and histograms for the images are available to be called up.
Mark Myerson loves photography, and in particular, hanging around waterfalls! Landscapes and nature have always been his staple, but he relishes any opportunity to take pictures. He also works closely with many local charities, regularly providing photographic coverage of fundraising events.
Mark is also a self-confessed tech-head and OSX lover – Apple is his favourite fruit!
Mark is the owner of Mark Myerson Photography, a Devon-based business that provides a large variety of photographic services to the local community and beyond. Whilst Mark Myerson Photography specialises in event, commercial and pet photography, almost every type of photographic assignment has been covered by the company.
If you have any photography or OSX-related questions, you can contact Mark via the links given below.