<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/11 Francisco Lorés Ara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plores@telefonica.net">plores@telefonica.net</a>></span><br><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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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">I found that the size of a PNG file generated from the same RAW file is *very* different when</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">a) the image editor is used -> 50+ MB</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">b) Tools -> RAW Image Converter is used -> about 12 MB</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">although compression rate is 9 in Setup -> Saving Images as well as in the Save As... dialog of the image editor.</p></div></blockquote><div><br>If you use digiKam and kipi-plugins for KDE3, Raw converter plugin support only 8 bits color depth, else digiKam image editor 16 bits color depth<br>
<br>but 50 Mb is very large. which RAW camera formt you convert ? Can you send me a raw file sample to test here (by private mail)<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div></div>