[Digikam-users] Color management with Nikon d40x

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/12/13 Heiner Lamprecht <heiner at heiner-lamprecht.net>

> On Samstag, 13. Dezember 2008, junk at lexoncom.com wrote:
> > If that is the case then, is it possible to configure Digikam to
> > applt the same settings as Nikon Software?
>
> I fear, it's not possible.  Even commercial applications like
> Photoshop or Lightroom are not able to do so.  It is possible, that
> Nikon does not give any information about how these settings are
> stored in the raw file.
>
> But maybe some of the raw-converter developers have more insight in
> this topic.
>

yes, private information are stored in Makernote metadata (a part of Exif
where manufacturers can store unstandardized and proprietary informations
about camera settings)

There is no public informations about. The only way to know what's stored
here is to process reverse engineering.

Exiv2 know already some parts, as Exiftool. dcraw program also analyze
Makernote to optimize Raw decoding. but it's limited.

digiKam now use LibRaw to decode Raw files. The current implementation is
based on dcraw but later some works will be done to review code and improve
Makenotes analyze to give a better and faster job.

But it's for the future of course.

Gilles Caulier





>
>
>    Heiner
>
> > > On Samstag, 13. Dezember 2008, junk at lexoncom.com wrote:
> > >> This is what I feel too.
> > >> It looks like Nikon software tweaks the image by deafult and
> > >> we dont have control over it (during raw conversion). Digicam
> > >> does not do anything and I would say in some sense this is
> > >> more professional aproach.
> > >
> > > The Nikon software applies the settings you did in the camera.
> > > I _do_ consider this a professional approach.  But you can
> > > still change this behaviour in you application.
> > >
> > >
> > >     Heiner
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