In addition most cameras store some manufacturer-specific data fields in the EXIF header of JPEG files.
I have made two new RPM packages and put them into the contribs: "dcraw" for reading raw images on many cameras and "metacam" to read manufacturer-specific EXIF extensions. Here are the descriptions (ChangeLog list seems to be broken currently):
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Name : dcraw Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 0.20030928 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release : 2mdk Build Date: Sun Sep 28 20:38:28 2003
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com
Group : Graphics Source RPM: (none)
Size : 74009 License: Distributable
Signature : (none)
Packager : Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
Summary : Reads the raw image formats of more than 70 digital cameras
Description :
Reads and processes raw images from more than 70 digital cameras.
Raw images are the data directly read from the CCD of the camera, without in-camera processing, without lossy JPEG compression, and in 36 or 48 bits color depth (TIFF has 24 bits). Problem of the raw images is that they are in proprietary, camera-specific formats as once, there seems not to be a standard format for high-color-depth images, and second, the raw images contain headers with information about camera settings.
This is a collection of command line tools to read and convert the raw image files and also to get camera setting information out of them.
Please read the /usr/share/doc/dcraw-0.20030928/dcraw.html file (all
programs mentioned in this file are included with this package and the
dcraw-gimp package) and the man page ("man dcraw").Install also dcraw-gimp if you want to be able to load raw image files directly into the GIMP.
This program does not download the files from the camera, it only
processes the already downloaded files. Depending on your camera
model, mount your camera as a USB mass-storage device, use GPhoto2
("gtkam", "flphoto", "gphoto2"), or a flash card reader for
downloading the files.
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ame : metacam Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release : 1mdk Build Date: Sat Sep 27 22:48:31 2003
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com
Group : Graphics Source RPM: (none)
Size : 28392 License: GPL
Signature : (none)
Packager : Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/metacam.html
Summary : Command line tool to read the EXIF extensions in JPEG files
Description :
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image.
In contrary to the tools "exif" and "gexif" (and all other libexif-based tools as "gphoto2") this tool gives a much easier readable summary of camera settings. But the speciality of this program is that it knows many manufacturer-specific entries for Nikon, Canon, and Olympus cameras.
The tool is very compact, the executable has only a size of around 87 kb. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
No MandrakeSoft Advanced Photo Laboratory 9.2 should be complete.
Till
