On 10/26/2014 09:17 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/26/14 06:10, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 10/25/2014 12:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 10/25/14 07:31, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> DigiKam now seems be displaying the files on the camera now as well, whereas
yesterday it couldn't either, although digiKam doesn't understand the raw format
files that I am taking with the camera. I could use jpeg images but that is not as good
for image manipulation and corrections as raw is.
>> You may be bumping up against an issue with DigiKam and image previews.
>>
>> I have this issue with a Cannon. When I hook up the camera a "preview"
window pops up the photos taken in RAW format do not display in the preview. However,
once they are downloaded and placed in the library they display and can be worked with
just fine. This is with LibRaw-0.15.4-1.fc20 installed.
>>
> When you say the photos don't display in the preview, do you mean it doesn't
see the files at all, or can't show the contents?
It shows the existence of the files with a "default icon" but not the image
itself.
> I assumed the reason it shows a default image for the files rather than the contents
was because the raw format on my Nikon is proprietary and libraw hasn't been updated
to support the format. The same issue was present with the raw interface in
Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, it had to be updated to support the camera before it could
manipulate the files in the NEF format that the D3100 takes.
In digikam, if you go to "Help--->Supported Raw Cameras" you'll see
your camera is listed.
> I've tried accessing the camera with GIMP, but it can't even see it. I
haven't tried RAWTHERAPEE or DARKTABLE yet, but I know those two can process the NEF
files when they are on a hard disk.
>
And that appears to be the same for digikam. Once you move the files to the system's
disk you can view and work with them.
This might be because the camera is being
accessed in PTP mode. I
thought I saw in one of the links that Poma supplied that PTP access
doesn't allow the contents of the images to be modified.
regards,
Steve