[Digikam-users] jpeg compression

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Bjoern,

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, [iso-8859-1] Bjørn Kvisli wrote:

> Lørdag 30 juni 2007 18:34, skrev Arnd Baecker:
> > Would it make sense to put a brief summary of the contents of this
> > thread into a FAQ entry (eg. "Which image format should I choose?")?
> >
> > If yes, Bjorn, could you maybe set up a short text, which
> > I could then put into the FAQ on the digikam homepage?
> >
> Hi Arnd
> I was about to start writing a small piece, but discovered something
> unfortunate when prepping this week's holiday photos from Berlin and Potsdam:
> I used the Digikam batch process to convert the jpeg files from my Nikon D40
> to png, and found that all the exif data were lost during conversion. I also
> took a few photos with my digital VCR camera, but these images did not loose
> the exif data. Strange? When I opened a jpeg file from the D40 in the editor
> and saved it as a  png, the exif data were also *not* lost. I have Digkam
> 0.9.0.

Sounds like a bug (or non-feature) to me.
You could try with 0.9.2, but I am not sure if anything was
done in that part ...
Not sure, but maybe you should file a bug report,
if there is no further input on this in the next days

Best, Arnd