[Digikam-devel] [Bug 142975] wish better support for RAW photo handling

[simon at margo.student.utwente.nl]

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------- Additional Comments From simon margo student utwente nl  2007-04-10 16:47 -------
Just revisiting this bug...

Actually, shooting RAW is mostly for keeping the best possible record of the recorded image, leaving the most flexibility for interpretation into a viewable/printable image. (Printers can/could have a larger colourspace than a screen for example).

So a photo archiving tool should keep track of viewable images and if available, their RAW originals (digital negatives).

In digikam, this could be done by keeping a separate database of RAW files and store the RAW filename and a hash of the data (to check integrity and possible filename confusions due to rollover of numbers) in the exif fields of the viewable images (if this is possible in the viewable format). The latter is probably limited to viewable images created via digikam's interface.

The interpretation of the RAW files could be internal or a call to an external program (like dcraw or any other)

Cheers

Simon

BTW, there's a movement going on for an open RAW format at http://www.openraw.org/