This is a general note, something for developers and photographers to consider...
What will be the fate of digital images stored in any non-destructive RAW image database like Darktable or even the old Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom? When my grandmother passed away we found 100+ year old photos in her house. There is no way on earth any software will support the RAW file format of 100-year-old cameras. When my yet-to-be-born grandkids sort through my house, my old Nikon NEF files will be useless and unreadable because no then-current software will know how to decode files from my late-20th century Nikon dSLR. Someplace I still have documents archived in MS-DOS Wordstar format, kind of the same issue, basically, the plan of keeping images in a camera-specific raw format is doomed. It is not if the plan will fail but only a matter of time. The solution is easy, convert to DMG format or even TIFF. Today it is in theory possible to support most obsolete cameras but this will get harder in years to come and impossible to 20 or 50 years. This post below about the old camera photos is the tip of a big iceberg that is coming. Testing and a large library of obsolete files is a way to slow the process but is unsustainable over a decades-long timescale. On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:25 PM Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> wrote: > On ubuntu 20.04.3, darktable 3.8.0 > > > I upgraded day before yesterday and discovered that support for > Panasonic Lumix seems to be broken. These are old images and have been > sitting in database through various version upgrades. Now when I try to > open a file with extension RW2 (Model as reported by lighttable image > information is DMC-G2, darkroom is not able to open it. Lightroom shows > me the error message about please check if camera model that produced > image is supported.... > > > Images were already supported as they are tagged in my database and > showed up in the search based on tags. I've not seen this problem for > any other images I have. > > > What broke and more importantly how should I fix it? I don't mind > getting my hands dirty on terminal or writing shellscripts or fooling > around command line parameters if that's going to help to debug the issue. > > > Happy to provide the sample if needed at sharable location. > > > Regards, > > > Niranjan > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
