[Digikam-users] need advice re: format conversion

[Tom Cloyd]

I have close to 2000 *.CRW raw files (Canon format) and am accumulating 
a number of *.JPG originals from a Nikon camera I've just been given. 
After studying the Digikam manual a bit, I'm unsure what to do about 
conversion of originals for storage.

I find that converting the CRW to DNG is easy, but the resulting image 
(preview, at least) is washed out, and thus not good for previewing to 
decide about image quality relative to the possibility of doing further 
work on an image. Is there a way to get a better preview image for the 
DNG conversion?

With the *.JPG originals, I find no advice in the manual. Should I just 
store the original JPG? If I convert to PNG, I get huge files, and my 
storage costs go up. I'd convert to DNG but I don't see how to do this 
in Digikam (yet). Is this even [a] advisable - for long term storage, 
and [b] possible, as a batch conversion in Digikam?

Thanks for the help, in advance. Continuing to have a great time with 
this program.

Tom C.


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