[Digikam-users] Lensfun -- most cameras and lenses missing

[Chris Dennis]

On 11/01/2011 01:03 PM, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> It's more likely that you use a lens that's not in the exiv2 database.
> Can be that you got a new batch of the lens that have a new ID that
> exiv2 doesn't recognizes. Check which lens ID the exiv2 tool show you
> from command line. Is OpenSuse using the latest exiv2 0.22? It contains
> the latest lens database.

No, that's not the problem.  The camera and lens IDs from the EXIF data 
are picked up correctly.

The problem is that digikam/lensfun is not reading all of the .xml files 
in the /usr/share/apps/digikam/lensfun/ directory.  It reads 
slr-samsung.xml and a few others, and it all works if I copy the data 
for my camera and lens from slr-canon.xml to slr-samsung.xml.

cheers

Chris

>
> If that doesn't work make a bug report to the exiv2 team with an example
> image that have meta data in the image with the unsupported lens ID. I
> did so recently with my Tamron 17-50/2.8 with Nikon mount that was in a
> new batch.
>
> /Philip
>
> On Nov 1, 2011 8:44 AM, "Photonoxx" <photonoxx at free.fr
> <mailto:photonoxx at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     I just make the a test, I'm on Opensuse 11.04 and KDE47 stable
>     repository and things seems to be ok here. My main lens still not
>     here (sigma 17-70mm) but it's due to the fact it is not here I
>     think, since I see a various manufacturer and lens references
>     (included Canon's ones).
>
>     Could be the matter in the packaging ?
>
>     Le Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:10:37 +0100, Chris Dennis
>     <cgdennis at btinternet.com <mailto:cgdennis at btinternet.com>> a �crit:
>
>         On 10/31/2011 09:41 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
>             2011/10/31 Chris Dennis<cgdennis at btinternet.com
>             <mailto:cgdennis at btinternet.com>__>:
>
>                 Hello Digikam people
>
>                 I've just installed Digikam on a new installation of
>                 ArchLinux. Everything
>                 is pretty much up to date -- Digikam is 2.2.0.
>
>                 Most of it works well, but the Lens Auto-Correction
>                 screen only lists a few
>                 cameras and lenses, nowhere near the whole list that I
>                 can see in the
>                 Lensfun xml files. �Strangely, the first time I try to
>                 use lens
>                 auto-correction, only Samsung cameras are listed; the
>                 second time, I see
>                 Fujifilm, Kodak, and Nikon too; with further attempts,
>                 no more cameras
>                 appear. �Which is a pity, because my camera is a Canon.
>
>                 On the console, I can see these error messages:
>
>                 digikam(976)/digikam (core)
>                 Digikam::DimgInterface::__getImg: d->image is NULL
>                 digikam(976)/digikam (core): ERROR: LensFun Interface
>                 Lens device is null.
>
>                 Googling on those hasn't turned up anything useful.
>
>                 It may be that I've got some libraries missing from
>                 ArchLinux.
>
>
>             No. lensfun (last code), is included in digiKam core. And
>             yes, more
>             lens need to be added.
>
>
>         Thanks for your reply, but I can see that
>         /usr/share/apps/digikam/__lensfun/ contains a big range of
>         camera and lens definitions; slr-canon.xml contains my camera
>         and my lens. �But only a few of those definitions show up in
>         digikam.
>
>         I know that digikam is using those files, because changes I make
>         in the Samsung file show up in digikam.
>
>         Aha! �That suggests a work-around. �If I copy the Canon camera
>         and lens definitions that I need into the Samsung file, they
>         show up and are automatically selected in digikam! �So now I can
>         make progress and apply corrections to my photos.
>
>         There's a bug in there somewhere though.
>
>         cheers
>
>         Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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>     Nicolas Boulesteix
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>     http://www.photonoxx.fr
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
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