[Digikam-users] Re: Pentax-k5 RAW photo problem

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi.

Which digiKam version ? which libraw/libkdcraw ? Go to Help components
info for details.

Which digiKam error you see ?

Can you provide a PEF file to test here ?

Gilles Caulier

2011/2/13 Pentti Rautio <pentti.j.rautio at googlemail.com>:
> Bought yesterday new Pentax-5. In k5 you can save raw either to PEF or
> DNG and in adobe or srgb. Digikam gives an error with PEF and
> prosesses DNG with a purple stripe (in top when vertical photo and in
> left with a horizontal one). You can crop it and you have an image
> which is equal or almost equal size to the camera jpg. After one day
> and 50 shots I don't see any problems with colors.
>
> I don't know the difference between PEF and DNG, both are compressed
> 16 bit to 14 bit, I guess, and are about the same size 23Mb.
>
> Currently I use Ubuntu 10.10 with Digikam 1.8.0. and have used digikam
> for about two years. I am very happy with digikam.
>
> Darktable is able to render both RAW forms (PEF and DNG) correctly but
> Rawtherapee, DNG-converter and Darkroom cannot.
>
> (Lately I have used Rawtherapee alfa version for difficult RAW:s and
> after prosessing do the rest in digikam).
>
> I Have about 80.000 -90.000 photos from  mainly Nikon or Sony, about
> one third are RAW. System has internal disk space of 2.5 Tb. Currently
> I move the images first to small and handy 500Gb Samsung usb disks and
> use them also to move photos to other systems if needed. For backup
> there are external bigger usb-disks.
>
> Hope for Pentax-5K file support in the near future.
>
> Thanks for an excellent program.
>
> Pentti
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