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Hi Jody,<BR>
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I also have a Canon 10D, and just started playing with kimdaba.<BR>
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Most software doesn't understand the EXIF data in CRW files. There are programs, like metacam (<A HREF="http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/metacam.html">http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/metacam.html</A>) that understand the EXIF data in the accompanied thumbnail (*.thm - which are really just jpeg files) - just about everything down to the serial number of the camera.<BR>
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Buf for just date and time, check out the fixdates program at <A HREF="http://www.cybercom.net">http://www.cybercom.net</A> -- it seems it isn't too hard to pull out the date and time (although I don't know how portable that is to other formats, or even other models of Canon cameras).<BR>
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I haven't used ImageMagick much -- how do you get the EXIF information out?<BR>
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regards,<BR>
Val<BR>
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:52, Jody Harris wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#68151e"><I>I downloaded kimdaba this afternoon (after seeing a note about it on
LWN), and I'm really thrilled about it!
There is one thing that would, I believe, really enhance it -- EXIF
handling.
I shoot a Canon 10D. Like most modern digicams, it stores extensive
data in the EXIF headers. Much of the information is proprietary, but
most of the good stuff follows the EXIF standard. Most critically, date
and time.
Since the timestamps on my images never match the creation time, getting
this info from the EXIF headers would be invaluable.
Unfortunately, I'm a photographer and a Perl hack. I do know that there
are C libraries for harvesting info from the EXIF headers, though.
Also, ImageMagick does a good job of extracting that info. ImageMagick
is installed by default on most modern Linux distros that I'm aware of.
Just thoughts.
I really hope I can be an asset on this list and not just a pain.
havoc</I></FONT></PRE>
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