[Digikam-users] How to best save images

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 24. Januar 2010 schrieb Micha? Smoczyk:
> Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Currently I shoot photos raw and midlle quality jpeg and copy
> > these files to my harddisk with digikam. Usually I don't touch
> > jpeg files any more. They are for a quick overview only. For
> > digikam this is not necessary but for normal file managers and
> > gwenview it is best handling.
> 
> That is generally the way I do, because of metadata - tagging is
>  the key for me. digiKam (and exiv2) can't write metadata to Canon
>  RAW files (CR2) which I use and I don't think this situation will
>  change in close future. I save CR2 files in subdirectory untagged,
>  convert them to PNG (loseless) which I tag.

Hm, may be, in case of raw, it is possible to save the meta data not 
only in the internal digikam database, but in an extra exif file as 
well. Just my thoughts

Martin