[Digikam-devel] Re: 2 Issues with DigiKam

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/3/17 Sven Lautemann <lautemann at googlemail.com>:
> 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.

Problem already reported and fixed by Jens Muller in recent release.
Please update to last 1.9.0

>
> 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.
>

I just find the problem here. I fixed it to current 2.0.0-beta4

Gilles Caulier