[Digikam-users] just an idea - what do you think?

[Daniel Bauer]

On Thursday 16 April 2009 09:53:46, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > PS: Untill now I used digikam 10.0 only for some tests for my CR2's [it
> > looks great, but it's kde4 and that makes it even slower] -  but I am not
> > really happy with the results from raw files, so i confess that right now
> > and untill I find the time to do deeper tests I use Canon's software in a
> > virtualbox with win XP to convert the raw files and then go on with
> > digiKam. But thats another topic...)
>
> But RAW import topic is important for me.
>
> Do you use Raw Import tool for digiKam image editor ? With it, you can
> set-up a lots of adjustments during demosaicing and as
> post-processing.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3162004701/sizes/o/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3246694827/sizes/o/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/3404494476/sizes/o/
>
> Best
>
> Gilles

Hi Gilles,

yes I know :-)

It's a question of available time. Besides of my regular work I organize photo 
courses/workshops in Barcelona and therefor am fully occupied... (oh: still 
some places open in the course of May 16/17 - see www.fotofotofoto.es :-) )

I would really love to do all my work with digikam, but in Barcelona i have 
only my laptop (unusable for photo work except of selecting, cropping etc. 
because I cannot really evaluate colors and contrasts on this screen). So 
when I come back to Basel for a short time I sit on the computer and do the 
adjustments for all the pictures taken in the meantime with Canon's 
programs... there's no time left for testing/setting up software.

I have seen (and very very shortly testet) the Raw Import tool of digikam and 
it looks great - but during clicking on several options I could not achieve 
the same quality as with Canons own software yet. The colors I get are 
too "neutral" or "flat". I want the program to "automatically" decode the raw 
files to the same result as the jpg produced by the camera.

If it helps (for the development of digiKam) I can provide some samples taken 
in raw+jpg mode with Canon 5D Mark II - if you don't care to do tests with a 
naked girl :-)

However, probably the problem does not lie within digikam but in my lack of 
time to find the correct settings... From October I will have more time.

kind regards

Daniel

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