[Digikam-devel] RAW mode decoding quality

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mardi 13 Juin 2006 10:33, Gerhard Kulzer a écrit :
> Hello Paco and Gilles,
> I probably missed some discussion on the subject during my absence (so I'm
> back): it looks to me that the quality factor selection has disappeared

No, the raw quality setting is always here. It's more easy to understand an 
algorithm name instead a simple number (0, 2, or 3 - 1 is not used actually 
by dcraw)

> from the settings menu and dcraw is now called with -q only
> (rawloader.cpp).
>
> To demonstrate the bad results we get  with this simplification I've
> composed an image with the same cutout from a raw file
> a) decoded with the thumbnail extraction facility dcraw -e

You trying to compare an embeded JPEG image used to display picture on a TV 
screen with a full quality RAW image (:=)))

> b) with digikam
> c) with dcraw -q

It's the same, but unforget the ICC workflow in digiKam !

Gilles