Lightroom Mobile and 24fps RAWs

The Sony RX100-V is an unexpected beast. The key difference comes from the 315-pint phase-detection AF system. First ever in a compact camera. It is blazingly fast. And accurate. And takes 20MP RAWs at 24fps, enabling a completely new shooting technique: press the shutter and keep it pressed for a while while the camera takes some 60 shots. And keep repeating. Chances are, among the 60, there will be one just great, not possible with a standard single shot technique. It is enough to say there isn't a seasoned DSLR in the world that can accomplish this.

The "only" drawback is that after an evening session you'll end up with probably close to 2000 pictures. And this is where the tedious part starts. Or was starting, because now it seems Adobe has finally closed the loop with the new "Enable offline editing" feature in Lightroom Mobile.

So here is my workflow now:

1. Keep the shutter button depressed creating hundreds or thousands of RAWs at will.
2. Import the RAWs into the desktop version of Lightroom and sync with Adobe Cloud
3. In Lightroom Mobile select "Enable offline editing". This will pull all the RAWs in full resolution down to an iPAD or whatever mobile device you're using for Lr Mobile.
4. (optional) Board a plane for a long haul flight or get yourself into any place comfortable for browsing photos. Hint: network connection is not required.
5. Browse through the photos, swiping them up or down to select the 50 or so keeps out of the 2000 taken. This is about 2.5% yield, which at least for me has been playing well. The less the better. It is about quality of captured moments, not quantity.
6. When back online, on the desktop Lr, delete rejected photos. This leaves you with just 50 RAWs you've picked.
7. Convert the 50 to DNGs, process them as usual.
8. Export to JPGs for Google Photos to sync and share. Done.

I mus say this offline thing that forces a full resolution download for offline viewing on iPad Pro is really a breakthrough here. And has proven to be very effective. Just during the last busy week and only on a couple of short commuter flights I managed to deal with about 4000 RAWs taken with the RX100-V over the weekend. Very effective. Thank you Adobe. Finally.