Why Android camera app uses JPEG format?
Why Android camera app uses JPEG format?
There are more efficient formats like JPEG-XL, HEIF and WebP. If you convert the RAW -> JPEG -> WebP you are losing more quality. I think iPhone uses HEIF format.
Related https://lemm.ee/post/2052205
You're viewing a single thread.
Likely because almost every electronic device and software under the sun is JPEG compatible.
This is the answer. All of those other formats have a much smaller ecosystem than just regular JPEG.
But they could give you an option to change it. For example, in my OnePlus I can choose video in h264 or h265 format. Photo there is no option, just JPEG.
The overlap between "cares enough about image quality to not be okay with jpeg" and "doesn't know to install a third party app" is probably too small for most manufacturers to care about.
That's a oneplus problem. Pixel devices have the option to change photo formats. You can download the default Google camera from the playstore iirc