[Digikam-users] Digikam IPTC

[Markus Spring]

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Michael,
as I am using both programs I feel to be in the position to comment on this.

* digikam and lightzone are completely different programs. lightzone is an
excellent raw converter with wonderful features to manipulate shots in very
intuitive ways and write high quality jpeg and tif files, whilst digikam is a
complete suite of foto asset management and picture processing inclusive
exporting to a whole bunch of formats.
Of course everybody is allowed to compare apples and pears, but - sorry for that
- - it does not make too much sense.

* lightzone has an extremely limited set of iptc operations, 6 fields in total
with to arrow operators allowing to fill in defaults. digikam has 8 screens for
iptc data editing (probably more the 30 fields - I did not count) plus presets
to be filled in automatically.
So your criticism of this point does not seem to bee too valid.

What really put's me off is that someone in his very first post picks out a
minor point, not even well expressed, even less backed by facts, and does not
formulate his concerns as questions or recommendations but bluntly abates
something he seemingly does not know very well.

Sorry, but on this basis discussion seems useless. Nobody recommends you to use
digikam if you have the feeling it does not suit your needs - the world is full
of programs, so go and pick.
If you just want to act as a troll, go elsewhere.

Regards - Markus Spring
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