[Digikam-devel] 2 Issues with DigiKam

[Sven Lautemann]

Hello!

I tried to use digiKam v1.2.0 on Debian Linux and came across two 
issues/questions:

1) When I convert a Canon RAW file (from a PowerShot G5) to DNG format, 
I get rather different colours (at least for the embedded preview 
image). I experimented with several options and tried to correct the 
white balance but did not find out how to get to natural colours.

2) I had assigned tags to some Canon RAW files. Looking at the exiftool 
output it seems Canon RAW files cannot store the tags in contrast to 
DNG. (This is one of the reasons I want to convert all my RAW files to 
DNG.) The digiKam database contains the tags I had associated to the RAW 
files. However, when I convert the Canon RAW files to DNG or even to 
jpeg, the tags are not taken out of digiKams database and assigned to 
the DNG or jpeg files; the resulting files simply do not have tags at 
all after the conversion (I can add them later on manually again). So 
I'm afraid I have to assign the tags that I already assigned to the RAW 
files again manually to the DNG files, which would be rather time consuming.

Maybe I did a mistake or simply got something wrong, but maybe I really 
found two aspects where digiKam, namely the RAW converter tool could be 
improved?

Thanks a lot for your help and for the great tool!

Sven Lautemann