Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-30 Thread Thibouille
I know I did one hour later when I realized my question was foolish, at least foolish to ask that before trying exactly what you wrote... let's say I was too tired, ok? ;) Too much World of Warcraft I suppose ... 2007/1/29, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:31:11AM

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-29 Thread Thibouille
Mmm I might program just that but it will not come before a time and would be specific to Pentax (at first, at least). BTW anybody knows where to find EXIF specifications ? 2007/1/28, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Featherstone
On 28/01/07, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the EXIF tags? I'm looking for something to do this and everything that I've tried so far (admittedly not much) only permits editing of a few things like dates. I want to

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-29 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:31:11AM +0100, Thibouille wrote: Mmm I might program just that but it will not come before a time and would be specific to Pentax (at first, at least). BTW anybody knows where to find EXIF specifications ? Well, the two most obvious things to do would be: 1) Try

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Thibouille
I will resume C++ as being a layer over C but half-broken due tu compatibility reason with C whoch is itself ASM with a layer supposed to let it look like a normal language but really is only ASM. Well that's how I see it. But C++ is not that difficult to read, if you rememer you read a sort of

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Cory Papenfuss
I will resume C++ as being a layer over C but half-broken due tu compatibility reason with C whoch is itself ASM with a layer supposed to let it look like a normal language but really is only ASM. Speaking of unparseable... :) -Cory --

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Boris Liberman
Cory, you definitely did not read Leo Tolstoy in original form. Half a page of printed text being a single sentence is not uncommon. Compared to that, everything else is just three word sentence ;-). On 1/28/07, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will resume C++ as being a layer over C

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Lon Williamson
Thibouille wrote: I have to produce a software as a final evaluation of my computer sciences studies. Exif/ipct collecting from files? How about a full Exif for pentax cameras, including maker's marks? I've not seen anything like that before. Might be suitable for an undergrad kind of

RE: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Bob W
Tolstoy has nothing on Victor Hugo! -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: 28 January 2007 14:44 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy? Cory, you

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Boris Liberman
Do you read French??? I thought you were from that island, what is its name again? ;-) On 1/28/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tolstoy has nothing on Victor Hugo! -- Bob -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

RE: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Bob W
in developing a software around photograhy? Do you read French??? I thought you were from that island, what is its name again? ;-) On 1/28/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tolstoy has nothing on Victor Hugo! -- Bob -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Roberts
Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the EXIF tags? I'm looking for something to do this and everything that I've tried so far (admittedly not much) only permits editing of a few things like dates. I want to be able to change camera data, ISO, everything. The

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
ExifTool. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:35:16PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the EXIF tags? I'm looking for something to do this and everything that I've tried so

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Cory Papenfuss
ExifTool. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html Beat me to it. Exiftool will pretty much let you read/write whatever you want... of course if the tags are unknown and/or proprietary you'll have to do it as raw data. For normal things like ISO, etc it should be

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Mark Roberts
In case anyone's interested, here's one example (check the EXIF data): http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7d501705.jpg Mark Roberts wrote: The reason for this weird request is that I'm currently sending material so a soon-to-be-public online photo gallery and their image submission system checks

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:13:02PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Well, my hat's off to both you and Boris. C++ is simply impenetrable to me. I find it a seriously damaged, bloated language with too much overloaded stuff added to support high level features . . . I'd agree with that.

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread Boris Liberman
Mark, Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the EXIF tags? I'm looking for something to do this and everything that I've tried so far (admittedly not much) only permits editing of a few things like dates. I want to be able to change camera data, ISO,

RE: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Bob W
have done so. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: 27 January 2007 05:47 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy? Peter, P. J. Alling wrote: IIRC

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:59:05 -0500, John Francis wrote: Writing a utility that can perform wildcard and/or directory tree operations in a cross-platform manner will be difficult enough. If he will be using 'C' I can supply a generic wildcard/treewalk function that uses a callback function that

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Lisp is truly beautiful, you have to try to see its beauty. The concept of a program that can write itself at run-time and then be evaluated (executed) is truly brilliant. Given the time when it was envisioned... I've never coded it, but I've seen it. They syntax makes it

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Doug Franklin
Cory Papenfuss wrote: I don't code much, and when I do it's generally low-level hardware-in-the-loop, realtime stuff. For that, C is about perfect IMO... all the power and flexibility of assembly, with the ease of use of... assembly. C is assembly in a whore's outfit. That's what

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Cory Papenfuss
I don't code much, and when I do it's generally low-level hardware-in-the-loop, realtime stuff. For that, C is about perfect IMO... all the power and flexibility of assembly, with the ease of use of... assembly. C is assembly in a whore's outfit. That's what I love about it. ;-)

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't care about beauty, I care about readability and understandability. I find well written, well formatted Lisp to be quite readable. Same for C, Pascal, BASIC, and even FORTRAN up to a point. Even good assembly language can be readable. C++ gives

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:22AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't care about beauty, I care about readability and understandability. I find well written, well formatted Lisp to be quite readable. Same for C, Pascal, BASIC, and even FORTRAN up

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 27, 2007, at 10:08 AM, John Francis wrote: ... Mind you, the important qualifier there is well-written. ... Aside from the fact that I think you're the *only* person who ever said to me that they found C++ easy to read, I agree with this part 100%. That said, it's easy to make a mess

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Gonz
think even Turing may have done so. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: 27 January 2007 05:47 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy? Peter

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Gonz
On 1/27/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:22AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't care about beauty, I care about readability and understandability. I find well written, well formatted Lisp to be quite

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:22:24PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 27, 2007, at 10:08 AM, John Francis wrote: ... Mind you, the important qualifier there is well-written. ... Aside from the fact that I think you're the *only* person who ever said to me that they found C++ easy to

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Boris Liberman
Godfrey, it seems I haven't raised my hand here So here I am - one hand up - yes C++ is easy to read if a person who wrote it *knew * what they was writing and they *knew* they were writing for a another person, not the compiler ;-). Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 27, 2007, at

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Well, my hat's off to both you and Boris. I was writing OO code in the early-middle 1980s, taught several classes on the subject, and was an OOPSLA conferree. I won several citations for code style at various times with both linear and OO projects. C++ is simply impenetrable to me. I find

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Godfrey, LOL ... My personal predilections come into play. I'd much rather write straightforward C code than any kind of Java or C++ ... mostly because I'm much more familiar with it and it has always proved to be far more portable and easier to compile and link on any system if I

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Robert, there is a program called Wega. It is a viewer actually. As for statistics and the other stuff you suggested - it does more or less just that. I accept your opinion about software engineering here. My proposal about Java was directed more or less towards the same goal. Boris Gonz

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Thibouille, I have a proposal but indeed it requires an approval of another club member. Perhaps you could pair with John Francis and come up with nice GUI and may be handful of extensions for his program that analyzes Pentax RAW file headers. Ultimately, this could becomes an open source

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: ... Well, you're older than me, aren't you? ;-) Based on the self portrait you posted recently, yes. By a bit... G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Gonz
On 1/26/07, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert, there is a program called Wega. It is a viewer actually. Sounds interesting, I'll check into it. As for statistics and the other stuff you suggested - it does more or less just that. The statistics part I suggested was more or

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert, there is a program called Wega. It is a viewer actually. Sounds interesting, I'll check into it. As for statistics and the other stuff you suggested -

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Gonz
On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it introduced and its too bad that it wasnt adopted by other

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/23/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, choice of programming language and envrionment will be harder. I have no experience in Java (but it looks like it should be doable). I'm more C++/Delphi. Graphical library for the GUI part will also be tricky. Any recommendation for a

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it introduced and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Scott Loveless
On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant roots. The data =

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Robert, this time I am totally on your side. Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the concepts it

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and elegant languages with elegant roots. The data = program paradigm is one of the

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no peeking at google.com... ;-) Godders, every progra-toddler knows that Fortran was the first symbolic programming language after machine code and assembly. Lisp came in

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
IIRC LISP came first. I find it's notation annoying at best and impenetrable at worst. C and C++ were elegant, until such things a Templates, (with their particularly un-C like syntax), were grafted onto the language. Now ForTran that was man's language. Scott Loveless wrote: On 1/26/07,

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
Damn, should have looked it up. Boris Liberman wrote: Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of the truly unique and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Scott Loveless wrote: On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of

RE: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Bob W
Personally I always preferred the bumper-sticker slogan: Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language (sometimes seen with assembly code instead of FORTRAN) there's a lot of truth in that. If you can program in one procedural language, you can program in them all. Similarly, if

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Stan Halpin
I worked with them both, sorta, in 1965-66 timeframe. My sense is that FORTRAN was the new kid on the block... On Jan 26, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: Thibouille, I have a proposal but indeed it requires an approval of another club member. Perhaps you could pair with John Francis and come up with nice GUI and may be handful of extensions for his program that analyzes Pentax

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Gonz
On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC LISP came first. I find it's notation annoying at best and impenetrable at worst. Its one of those you get it, or you dont type of languages. In our first semester of Computer Science, when we were introduced, there were lots of people in

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Featherstone
On 26/01/07, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, as much as most hate it, I rather like FORTRAN. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. Please see: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Well, you're obviously right. Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: Ok, geeky trivia time ... which came first, LISP or FORTRAN? And no peeking at google.com... ;-) Godders, every progra-toddler knows that Fortran was the first symbolic programming

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Peter, P. J. Alling wrote: IIRC LISP came first. I find it's notation annoying at best and impenetrable at worst. C and C++ were elegant, until such things a Templates, (with their particularly un-C like syntax), were grafted onto the language. Now ForTran that was man's language.

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-25 Thread Thibouille
I will repsond to a couple points.. * It is indeed academic: it is a final evaluation of a bachelor which means 3 years studies (precision because those things tends to change quite much from country to country). * The usual software student do provide (because in line with the school program so

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-24 Thread David Savage
This isn't a suggestion, but I'd love a colour manged web browser for Windows. Cheers, Dave On 1/24/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to produce a software as a final evaluation of my computer sciences studies. Of course, nothing like a RAW converter etc. but maybe there a

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Java is an interesting solution to cross platform implementation language, but a can of worms in many ways. Java language interpreters installed on client systems seems to be all over the map version- wise, which affects compatibility, features, portability, etc. Writing and testing Java

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-24 Thread Boris Liberman
Godfrey, my point being that Java can be used in order to create *reasonably* portable and *reasonably* cross platform code. After all we're talking educational project here, not fully blown industrial development effort. I agree with your analysis, but in order for Thibouille to concentrate

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-24 Thread Gonz
You didnt specify what level of effort you are talking about. 3 man months, 6 man months, a man year? Also the expectations. Is this a single course project, Bachelor's thesis, Masters? With all due respect to others who have gotten into a discussion of the merits of portability, language

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
LOL ... My personal predilections come into play. I'd much rather write straightforward C code than any kind of Java or C++ ... mostly because I'm much more familiar with it and it has always proved to be far more portable and easier to compile and link on any system if I was rigorous

Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Thibouille
I have to produce a software as a final evaluation of my computer sciences studies. Of course, nothing like a RAW converter etc. but maybe there a couple things which would be handy to have in a little software? Conversions? (focal length, DOF...) Inventory? (lenses, bodies, film, memory cards,

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread graywolf
How about a database to automatically catalog digital photo files on the computer using the embedded info with the only manual input being an optional caption? -graywolf Thibouille wrote: I have to produce a software as a final evaluation of my computer sciences studies. Of course, nothing

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
An excellent computer science study exercise would be to write something that will digest a large volume of digital capture images' EXIF data. I'd like a utility like this to - store the significant bits of EXIF and IPTC data coordinated with file name and location for easy accessibility -

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: An excellent computer science study exercise would be to write something that will digest a large volume of digital capture images' EXIF data. I'd like a utility like this to - store the significant bits of EXIF and IPTC data coordinated with file name and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 23, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: An excellent computer science study exercise would be to write something that will digest a large volume of digital capture images' EXIF data. I'd like a utility like this to - store the significant bits of EXIF and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Thibouille
List weirdness I got your response to Godfrey message, got followinf Godfrey message but notthe first one to which your reponded... :| All those are pretty interesting idea I have to admit :) Now, choice of programming language and envrionment will be harder. I have no experience in Java (but it

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Thibouille wrote: List weirdness I got your response to Godfrey message, got followinf Godfrey message but notthe first one to which your reponded... :| All those are pretty interesting idea I have to admit :) Now, choice of programming language and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Patrice LACOUTURE (GMail)
Hi! Here is a something I planned to do sometime, but never got the time to actually implement: - Feed the software a bunch of DNG files (or other RAW format, but preferably DNG ;-) ) - It will scan each file, and based on lens identifier, focal length, approximate focusing distance, and

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread John Coyle
get to use it afterwards to keep track of your images... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:15 AM Subject: Interest in developing a software around photograhy

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-23 Thread Boris Liberman
Thibouille, if you want easy way of this burden, you may want to learn Java. If you know C++/Delphi, it will not be much of a problem. Then you can write your GUI and interface with OS low level in Java which theoretically should be cross platform. Otherwise, if you want to stick to C++, then