[Digikam-users] Embedded previews in DNG files

[Remco Viëtor]

on Thursday 13 May 2010, Matthew Fauver wrote: 
> 
> No one ever answered my question :(
Then I'll give it a shot, though I don't use DNG myself :) (I do have a Sony 
reflex though)
> 
> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 19:42 -0500, Matthew Fauver wrote:
> > I've recently been converting all my Sony a200's RAW files to DNG with
> > the JPEG preview set to medium. I was just wondering, what uses the
> > embedded thumbnail? Because it doesn't looks like digiKam or Nautilus
> > does.

Afaik, Digikam (and I'd assume Nautiles)uses the embedded thumbnail in album 
view. Also, in single image view, there's a gray rectangle saying 'embedded 
jpeg preview' when it shows a ARW file.

> > Also, random question, do I lose any data when converting my RAW files
> > to DNG? 
No idea, you shouldn't lose any image data, metadata might be more tricky. 
Someone else who is better informed could perhaps answer that one.

Remco