digiKam 8.8.0 is released

[digikam at sritch.com]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:08:28 +0200
Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The ORF image is now supported, the image size was not found.

Sorry, but what is image size? Which tag are you looking for?


> We don't currently support Pentax. The image also only has one
> center point. So, we would need multiple samples with different
> focus points. 
>  We would need a screenshot of the camera display
> showing the focus point to determine the size, etc., to support
> Pentax.

Can't help with that for the Pentax: These are very old photos and I
do not have any Pentax camera anymore.

Thanks for taking the time.

> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Sonntag, 19. Oktober 2025, 20:21:49 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> schrieb 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=d
> > rive_link
> > 
> > PEF:
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_LR-hYl2_IIkcAyN0f_D3vux1iJmjgz_/view?usp=s
> > haring
> > 
> > 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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