[KPhotoAlbum] More patches

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 11:03:34 -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 13:17:46 +0200, Tobias Leupold wrote:
>> Hi Robert :-)
>>
>> I just wanted to try out your patches, but Miika is right: at least for the link-images patch, your code is _removed_ by it and not added, so I can't apply it.
>>
>> Would you be so kind to recreate the patches in the right "direction", so that we don't have to apply the changes by hand? Would be nice :-)
>
> I don't really like the current lens EXIF logic.  On many Canon
> cameras, Lens will work better than LensType.  For example, on the
> 300D:
>
> [1(rlk)|{!10}<dsl092-065-009>/altmnt/images/300d/dcim/101canon]
> $ exiv2 -pa img_0108.jpg |grep Lens
> Exif.CanonCs.LensType                        Short       1  (65535)
> Exif.CanonCs.Lens                            Short       3  28.0 - 135.0 mm

The other logic problem I see with this is that it iterates just once
over the EXIF data (which is not in any defined order), so which
clause triggers (LensModel, LensIDNumber, LensType) depends upon the
order in which the iterator happens to return on any given instance.
-- 
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