Hello,
> Congratulations on jumping through all the hoops! ;)
Thank you :) I wanted to write it down here so that can be useful for
someone else!
> So you could basically choose any Micro 4/3 camera for that field and get
the same results.
> The mil-panasonic.xml file needed an entry for the camera. I added it in
the git repository,
> hopefully it will show up in your next update. If you really need to, you
can modify your local
> copy similarly, by just copying the entry for G6, for instance, and
changing that one little number.
I've modified the mil-panasonic.xml adding the DMC-G7 entry:
---
<camera>
<maker>Panasonic</maker>
<model>DMC-G7</model>
<mount>Micro 4/3 System</mount>
<cropfactor>2</cropfactor>
</camera>
---
but it does not work!
Within darktable the camera is not listed... What else is needed?
Thank you,
Brune
2017-11-19 23:25 GMT+01:00 <junkyardspar...@yepmail.net>:
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017, at 13:53, Brune Wayce wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am on Debian 9 (stable) and my camera/lens was not present in the
> lensfun
> > database seen by darktable.
> > After some troubles, in the end I did succeed updating the lensfun
> > database: I did have to install all the *lensfun* packages (actually I
> did
> > not install "gimp-lensfun" and "liblensfun-doc"), and then executed a
> "sudo
> > lensfun-update-data". After this I manually copied the .xml files from
> > "var/lib/lensfun-updates/version1" to "usr/share/lensfun/version1".
>
> Congratulations on jumping through all the hoops! ;)
>
> > Now my lens (Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6) is in the
> database
> > and Darktable can see it, but my camera (Panasonic DMC-G7) is still not
> > present! I can manually select one of the other cameras (I can choose for
> > example Panasonic DMC-G6) and Darktable apply all the lens corrections,
> but
> > I'm not sure this is the optimal solution...
>
> Lensun uses the camera model detection for essentially two things:
> * to know the crop factor of the camera model for calculation of correction
> * to use the lens mount information to show you a relevant list of lenses
> for manual selection
>
> So you could basically choose any Micro 4/3 camera for that field and get
> the same results.
>
> > What should I do to make darktable automatically select my camera/lens
> set?
>
> The mil-panasonic.xml file needed an entry for the camera. I added it in
> the git repository, hopefully it will show up in your next update. If you
> really need to, you can modify your local copy similarly, by just copying
> the entry for G6, for instance, and changing that one little number. Thanks
> for reporting.
>
> --
> jys
>
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