| Summary: | Cannot work with Sigma-RAW-files (X3F) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | Michael <mizban> |
| Component: | Plugin-DImg-RAW | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | caulier.gilles, lexa |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.5.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 1.7.0 | |
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Description
Michael
2010-11-04 09:16:00 UTC
Michael, See below a private email thread about Sigma RAW file support: //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAW files and conversions for ...Sigma SD10 3 messages Janox <janox@tiscali.it> 28 août 2010 10:15 À: caulier.gilles@gmail.com Hello, After downloading and using the last version of Digikam, I have to thank you for your great work, this software is really wonderful, now I can abandone Windows! In order to help your team to develope the next releases of Digikam, I send you via ftp some RAW files of my camera (Sigma SD10), even if Foveon sensor is no longer supported [ :-( ]. You'll find (at ftp sit e zeus.serveft p.net) the following files : - Sigma RAW files (.X3F) - JPG converted by Sigma Photo Pro 4.0 (X3F setting, no any adjustment) - JPG converded by LightRoom -Win32- Trial version (no any adjustment) (I placed in each photos star marks (3star), some tags, IPTC data, just to evaluate the import function) - .XPM files by Lightroom with additional data. My best regards for this project, it's so admirable your team produce a package better than commercial software, and with a constant improving! BRAVO! Mario Gilles Caulier < caulier.gilles@gmail.com> 28 août 2010 11:22 À: Janox <janox@tis cali.it>, Alex Tutubalin <lexa@lexa.ru> Janox, To proces s RAW files, digiKam us e libraw. http://www.libraw.org Since 0.9.x releas e (if i remember) libraw author (Alex Tutubalin) have removed Foveon support from the implementation, about incompatibility of license of this code taken from dcraw. I recommend to as k to Alex directly for more information about. I s et him in CC from this mail. All the best Gilles Caulier Alex Tutubalin < lexa@lexa.ru> 28 août 2010 12:37 À: Janox <janox@tiscali.it> Cc: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> Hello Mario! Yes , Gilles is right, the Foveon sensor is unsupported by LibRaw because of two causes : - there is no way to get good color from this s ens or. Ever Sigma own software produces very strange colors from these cameras (and, sure, different versions of Sigma s/w produces very different colors from the same shot of ColorChecker table). - the Foveon parser code (part of Dave Coffin's dcraw.c program) is GPL licensed. Our library (LibRaw) has more liberal license since version 0.9, so no way to use this code and no format information from Foveon/Sigma to make our own parser. All other dcraw.c code has very liberal license, so no problem with other (Bayer sensor) cameras . So, we decided to drop Foveon support. Sorry. Alex Tutubalin, LibRaw team. //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael, Alex work on new Libraw 0.12 with the capabilty to plug demosaicing modules. X3F (Sigma) support will be added with this release. I will try to backport libraw 0.12 in libkdcraw from KDE 4.5 and next 4.6, but i'm not yet sure is binary compatibility will be respected. This is a rule from KDE project. Anyway, the next libkdcraw coming with KDE 4.7 will have X3F support. Code is in developement in a separate branch. It will be avaialble in KDE core after KDE 4.6 release date (january 2011) Gilles Caulier With new libraw 0.12-beta3, X3F support have been added to libkdcraw. This new version will be avaialble with KDE 4.7 (perhaps 4.6 if libraw 0.12 will be stable before KDE 4.6 release date) This file can be closed now... Gilles Caulier The proof : http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/5237007527/ Gilles Caulier |