Thanks all, I was really not trying to spread anything :) As you will be able to sense, I am pretty new at this and while I am still not sure how to do any of what has mentioned below, it has given me a good place to start googling :)
Thanks again André https://www.linkedin.com/in/abasel/ Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, January 1st, 2022 at 8:54 AM, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote: > If this is true for commercial software it is not for free software. For one > thing, the code is open and anyone will be able to read old raw with > darktable or any free software. So please do not spread fear and unfounded > problems. > > Le ven. 31 déc. 2021 à 20:05, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> 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> 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 >>> [darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org](mailto:darktable-user%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org) >> >> -- >> >> Chris Albertson >> Redondo Beach, California >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org](mailto:darktable-user%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org) > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.or
