* Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> [02-01-16 03:52]:
Dne Ne 31. ledna 2016 14:49:32, Patrick Shanahan napsal(a):
* Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> [01-31-16 14:21]:
On 01/31/2016 01:12 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
So set your meta-data in your camera to be added to the files the camera outputs and maintain pristine originals and do as you please to non-originals.
Not all cameras have the capability to add the exif tags that a user may want.
Understood, and I used to write exif/itpc information directly to my raw files and never corrupted one afaict, but have been advised by knowledgable individuals that it is possible and better safe than not. :)
And was the reason of technical or philosophical (not to modify the only intact original) nature? :-)
Maybe a little of both coming from camera makers systems are proprietary, not open, and all outside access must be determined by good guessing and hacker analysis. The problem with writing to raw files is it changes the size, order and location of data withing the file. If any of those items become critical, the file is trashed. And much of exif is not standardized, a field in one vendors raw file may not be accepted in anothers or even the same vendor but a different camera/format. You have read hear of people seeing errors for incorrect unrecognized fields when trying to import photos.
Adding information to non-raw files doesn't appear to be a problem and I agree that maintaining side-car or db information for non-raw files is an unwanted chore. But I believe in shooting raw and am not interested in
Exactly. There is standard well documented technology with all needed features (regarding adding some more information like tags, coordinates, description etc), so I really do not understand why each separate SW should make its own incompatible way...
Vendor lock-in. They want all the money they can get from you and use any means at their disposal to affect that end. Look an M$.
maintaining additional files for non-raw images. A very rare occasional phone image might have need but it would be *really* rare.
As each vendor produces it's own version of raw and varies between cameras and mostly incompatible with other brands, and the cameras employing many differing strategies for capturing images, it is a marvelous wonder that the developers have produced a free software able to work with the myriad versions of raw and produce excellent output. Kudos to the dt developers. gud luk, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org