[Digikam-devel] [Bug 126149] Camera stores both jpeg and raw (nef), handle both as one

[Milan Knizek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126149





--- Comment #24 from Milan Knizek <knizek volny cz>  2009-09-15 19:24:35 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (If I used Windows this would be less of a problem since
> I could use Nikon software to postprocess - using all stored camera settings)

The same with Canon. In linux we are struggling with camera profiles and/or
colour matrices of dcraw to finally imitate what the proprietary vendor's
technology does in the camera or their software.

(In reply to comment #22)
> at some point you wish to store both raw and jpeg (or tiff, or png, ...

It is also about comfort: majority of my images (family, travelling) are for
web (i.e. JPEG is sufficient) and DSLRs do a good job automatically. If not, I
still have the RAW file to try myself. If I decide to have a big print out, I
use RAW.

Last, but not least: I cannot tag Canon CR2 files (not supported yet) and do
not want to convert to DNG (from reasons discussed elsewhere in the photography
forums). My RAW files are about 25 MB, camera JPEG previews about 3 MB - not a
big deal to have them for "free".