[Digikam-users] tags/keywords between Adobe Lightroom and Digikam

[Ozzy]

This is a piece of info I previously posted in this mail list:
"... Elle, just out of curiosity. What do you have against DNG? The way I
see DNG's is as a secure way to store your negatives. I use Canon, so if
one day Canon decides to stop supporting cr2 format I already have my
negatives in an open-source digital negative format."

DNG is an open source format. CR2 is not. I keep converting all my CR2
files to DNG. An extra step that gives me some added piece of mind.
On Dec 31, 2011 4:06 AM, "Jim Dory" <james at dorydesign.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Many thanks for the info.
>
> I'm using DK 2.4.1 on KDE 4.7.4, if that helps.
>
> I had been converting to DNG, but lately questioning whether I want
> that extra step. So good to hear your opinion about it.
>
> In DK I under Settings/configure digikam/Metadata I'm looking at
> "Write Metadata to RAW files" which is checked and under that is Read
> Metadata from XMP sidecar files" which is greyed out- unable to check.
> Maybe it is dependent on another item being checked/unchecked.
> Otherwise I'm not seeing where that would be.
>
> cheers, Jim
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > First off, AFAICT the conversion to DNG from CR2 provides no benefit at
> all.
> > The support for CR2 is available to work on them directly. The
> conversion to
> > DNG uses that same code, so the conversion is just an extra step in the
> > process. Add to that the issues over interpreting manufacturer specific
> > metadata and it seems best to me to just use CR2 files.
> >
> > Secondly, what version of digikam are you using? If it is pre-2.x then
> there
> > is no .xmp sidecar support. Tags for CR2 files will only appear in the
> > digikam database which will be invisible to PS/LR. Tags written by PS/LR
> to
> > .xmp files will be invisible to digikam. If you are using then 2.x then
> you
> > may need to switch on .xmp support, but I am not sure how useable that is
> > yet. Maybe others can comment on that.
> >
> > Andrew
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