[Digikam-devel] digikam PNG workflow...

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia wtorek, 24 stycznia 2006 13:23, Caulier Gilles napisał:
> Le Mardi 24 Janvier 2006 00:03, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> > Dnia poniedziałek, 23 stycznia 2006 12:31, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Please take a look in my new blog entry and let's me hear you
> > > viewpoints...
> >
> > Not sure if forced conversion of RAW files into PNG is good thing.
>
> Are you read my all my comments in this thread ?

Yes.

>
> > I think main problem is dealing with JPEGs (lossy etc.).
>
> No and no JPEG is a lossy quality file format for photograph. It
> dedicaced to publish pictures on the web, not to backup a photograph !!!

But, you know, there is no small number of cameras which are making
photos in JPEG.

> >     mogrify -quality 100 -sampling-factor 1x1 -format png *.jpg
> >
> > Size of images was growing 9-10 times. My modest collection of 4000
> > pics currently 2,5G would be ca. 20G. Of course, this is acceptable
> > for some people, but for other not.
> >
> > Temporary conversion would give users without much disk space
> > advantages of lossless format.
>
> The space disk isn't a problem here ! Who using an hdd 10Gb of capacity
> ?

10G maybe not. But 20G of 40G (standard for cheaper laptops) is still
big part of HDD.

> In all case if you won't convert JPEG/RW to PNG on the fly, i can. It
> will be an option !

OK.

m.