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

[Pentti Rautio]

2011/2/13 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> Which digiKam version ? which libraw/libkdcraw ? Go to Help components
> info for details.

digiKam Version 1.8.0
Using KDE Development Platform 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1)
KDcraw 1.1.0
LibRaw 0.10.0-Beta1

>
> Which digiKam error you see ?

PEF  : unpacking of RAW unsuccessful (or something like that in English)
DNG  : can be processed but in the result there is a purple coloured
stripe (approximately 50pixel wide)

>
> Can you provide a PEF file to test here ?

I'll try later. I couldn’t get trouhg any file server now.

Pentti

>
> 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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