MacOS: can the built-in camera cough up raw images?

[JohnTigue]

Perhaps different things happen with camera-in-macOS-Photobooth compared to camera-in-Colab notebook take picture.

[JohnTigue]

I mean, come on, that's an awfully suspiciously wide histogram.

[JohnTigue]

Yeah, turns out macOS is processing the RAW image, which can be gotten at via iOS APIs: Capturing Photos in RAW Format

Still unknown: how to do that in macOS

[JohnTigue]

Maybe the answer is in JavaScript-land: navigator.mediadevices.getusermedia.

• In-browser RAW Processing: How We Did It OK, but not sure this is about taking pics.
• How to display raw image data with html and javascript?
• Taking still photos with WebRTC
• https://github.com/zfedoran/dcraw.js
  • https://github.com/meganz/dcraw.js

[JohnTigue]

The Photos app can handle RAW:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/personaltech/put-os-x-photos-in-the-raw-format.html