[Digikam-users] EXIF and RAW

[Paul Waldo]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 1:44 pm, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> Le Mardi 31 Octobre 2006 19:09, Paul Waldo a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using an older version of Digikam, version 0.8.2-rc1, as package
> > with my Kubuntu distribution.  I have two questions:
> >
> > - Is there any way to coerce digikam to read the EXIF information for the
> > RAW files?  I have compiled the latest version of exiv2 and have that
> > available, but no luck reading the EXIF with digikam.  I would prefer to
> > hold off until the next release of Kubuntu to get a later version of
> > digikam, so as to not have to try to compile digikam...
>
> no way, sorry... This is releavant of old  libexif witch cannot read Exif
> from RAW.
>
> digiKam 0.9.0 use exiv2 library now instead libexif.
>
> > - When importing images from my CF card, only *.CRW files get
> > transferred. None of the *.THM files generated by the camera get
> > transferred.  Since these files are generated by the camera, I think of
> > them as part of the "digital negative".  Are they not needed for
> > anything?
>
> These problems have been fixed in digiKam 0.9.0
>
> Gilles
Thanks for the reply!  I guess I'll have to get the sources and compile...

Paul