digiKam 8.8.0 is released

[digikam at sritch.com]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:25:07 +0200
Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Both Olympus and OM Systems are supported. A quick test with a
> sample from the web of an OM-1 Mark II shows no problems displaying
> the focus point. ExifTool is required to display the focus points.

It work with:
- Fuji RAFs
- Pentax DNG
- Canon CR2

Does not works with:
- Pentax PEF
- OM Systems ORF

$ pacman -Q exiftool               (Manjaro)
perl-image-exiftool 13.36-1

I have uploaded 2 photos to google drive:

ORF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzYQUQAvL3HcAq8PMNtKRY2D_7ICtt6-/view?usp=drive_link

PEF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_LR-hYl2_IIkcAyN0f_D3vux1iJmjgz_/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for taking the time to investigate



> Otherwise, send a sample image.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2025, 16:14:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> schrieb digikam at sritch.com:
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:36:03 +0200
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:  
> > > The digiKam development team is proud to release digiKam 8.8.0.
> > > For more details, see announcement on digikam.org:
> > > 
> > > https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0_release_announcement/
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > digiKam team  
> > 
> > Interesting. The announcement mentions that now you can see the
> > focus points on Olympus and Fuji images.
> > 
> > How to do that?
> > 
> > Main > F3: preview > right click on image > enable show focus
> > point: nothing
> > 
> > I could add by hand, but not for a thousand images.
> > 
> > Tried it with ORF: OM Systems OM-1MkII: 12-40mm/40-150mm
> > Tried with RAF: it works
> > 
> > Is Olympus different from OM Systems?
> > 
> > Thanks  
> 
> 
> 
> 


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