<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/11/7, Enrico <<a href="mailto:enrico@hotmail.com">enrico@hotmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hallo Everybody!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm a "digital photographer", and I would like to
ask you a question, that still haven't found answers after my researches. I'm
not so expert, but before asking to you, I checked on the documentation and in
Internet, no results.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">When I download raw (.CR2) photos from my digital
SLR, I used to convert them in this way:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">dcraw -T -w *.CR2</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">...and I got "standard" tiff pictures. Then, I
installed Digikam, and I got similar results using the raw batch converter,
leaving the recommended settings (use camera white balance, automatic color
balance), only changing the savefiles to TIFF.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But what really shocks me is this: as soon as I
download the CR2, Digikam shows the thumbnail...and the thumbnail of
CR2 has better colors than the thumbnail of the converted TIFF!!!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">My question is: which parameters are used to
generate the thumbnail from the CR2? I suppose that dcraw is used.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>The thumbnail are generated to extract the jpeg image embeded in RAW file. (dcraw -e option)<br><br>RAW files are container : raw image data + reduced JPEG image + metadata.
<br><br>The reduced JPEG image is used to render picture on TV screen very quickly. <br><br>Same behaviours when you display the Preview of RAW picture (F3 in Album GUI). Of course it completly different when you edit image (F4 in Album GUI). In this case the real RAW image data are used.
<br><br>Gilles Caulier</div></div><br>