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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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can show you the difference here: <A
href="http://www.biofisica.it/disordered/digi.png">www.biofisica.it/disordered/digi.png</A>
- I hope the question is clear.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you in advance, and excuse me for the
disturb.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Enrico</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>