May 7, 2022

Pixel 6 camera - Raw capture and lightroom classic

You can launch the Camera app, go into settings, advanced, and switch on raw + jpeg. No way to just get raw apparently, but you can always discard the jpeg images later.

Get them into lightroom

My current method for getting photos off the phone is by using the Airdroid app. The either deposits individual images in my Downloads folder, or if I select several images, I end up with a zip file.

My lightroom archive is on a shared disk on my linux system. What I do to get my phone images into lightroom is to make a directory, then copy all the files into that directory. At this time, the path (from the linux side) is: 

/u1/Camera/lightroom/2022/2022_pixel6
Where "2022_pixel6" is the directory I just copied and loaded up with images. Just putting them there does not make lightroom aware of them.

On my windows machine, I click on "Adobe Lightroom Classic" (yes I am now paying for the subscription version of lightroom, which should prove to be a good thing given they have only recently added Pixel 6 support.)

I click on "import". Then I select the P: drive and navigate to lightroom/2022/2022_pixel6. I make sure "Add" is selected up top (as it is). Then I click on "import" at the lower right.

The Pixel 6 photos are tagged with GPS locations and lightroom wants to know if it is OK to send coordinates to a "map provider" to get city, state, county information to tag the photos. I say OK.

All of this works out great. As a bonus, somehow all of my old photos from the Samsung S4 were in the collection and I got those also.

This process is easy enough and works great.

Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

Tom's Cell Phones / tom@mmto.org