and for this there is the raw.pixls.us database to provide freely available
samples of each and any file as long as the owner of the camera cooperates and
provides samples.
There is no way the developers buy each and any camera ...
Btw: DNG is *not* a *free* format. It's owned by Adobe.
Martin Straeten schrieb am 31.12.21 um 20:10:
darktable will be able to edit these files if they ever were supported ;)
Am 31.12.2021 um 20:06 schrieb Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>:
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 <nhr...@gmail.com
<mailto:nhr...@gmail.com>> 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
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