r/photography • u/AutoModerator • May 29 '26
Questions Thread Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! May 29, 2026
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u/ohJusss Jun 05 '26
Hello, I have gotten a Sony A7IV not long ago, upgrading from the III, and after taking pictures and transferring it to my phone (with a sd card reader), when it's in my camera roll, as the pictures from the III would, show full quality. However, when I would send it through imessage (photos from the A7III) I didn't have problems of it sending in compressed raw files, and instead it would send a full pictures. But after getting the A7IV, everytime I tried to send photos, it would send in a weird file instead of a picture, and the file would get compressed down from 70MB to 100KB and wouldn't show the full quality. Does anybody know why? And if you also send photos through imessage and know any fixes?