Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* ternaryd [02-05-18 02:50]: > Hi, > > The Exif files as provided by my Nikon includes > the selected focus point(s). When looking at the > images in the camera, I can choose to display > them. Is there a way to do the same in > darktable? > > If not, would it be possible to

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Guillermo Rozas
>> If you use KDE, you'd better avoid Nvidia. See >> http://kde-bugs-dist.kde.narkive.com/RYzm58yW/plasmashell-bug-347772-new-kscreenlocker-greet-using-100-cpu-on-plasma-5 >> >> It's been open for years. There are a few suggested workarounds, none of >> which really worked for me. > > I use KDE

Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Montag, 5. Februar 2018, 08:49:34 CET schrieb ternaryd: > Hi, > > The Exif files as provided by my Nikon includes > the selected focus point(s). When looking at the > images in the camera, I can choose to display > them. Is there a way to do the same in > darktable? > > If not, would it be

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 08:07:27 +0100, =?UTF-8?B?S09Ww4FDUyBJc3R2w6Fu?= wrote: > If you use KDE, you'd better avoid Nvidia. See > http://kde-bugs-dist.kde.narkive.com/RYzm58yW/plasmashell-bug-347772-new-kscreenlocker-greet-using-100-cpu-on-plasma-5 > > It's been open for years. There are a few

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Giulio
Il 05/02/2018 01:01, Robert Bieber ha scritto: Interesting, thanks for the rundown.  I don't really like the idea of proprietary graphics drivers, but it seems like Nvidia is still my best bet.  Hopefully someday the free AMD drivers will be up to par and I can switch back to them. ...now I

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Hi 2018-02-05 16:50 GMT+01:00 Giulio : > Note that if you plan to keep the pc for some years, nvidia will stop > developing the proprietary driver, and maybe you have to moreless trash the > pc since newer kernel and so on won't work with old gpu drivers... > > *if* the

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Giulio [02-05-18 10:53]: > Il 05/02/2018 01:01, Robert Bieber ha scritto: > >Interesting, thanks for the rundown.  I don't really like the idea of > >proprietary graphics drivers, but it seems like Nvidia is still my best > >bet.  Hopefully someday the free AMD drivers

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Guillermo Rozas
...now I just have to go see if I can get my hands on a decent Nvidia card > without the bitcoin miners snapping them all up :p > Note that if you plan to keep the pc for some years, nvidia will stop developing the proprietary driver, and maybe you have to moreless trash the pc since newer kernel

Re: [darktable-user] CPU Recommendations

2018-02-05 Thread Peter Mc Donough
Am 05.02.2018 um 02:35 schrieb Šarūnas: On 02/04/2018 05:38 PM, Robert Bieber wrote: Oh yeah, I'm just talking about the price of the CPU, not the whole PC. I'm planning on doing all out on RAM and solid state drives as well. I guess GPU might be of some concern as well, how has GPU processing

Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread ternaryd
On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:00:19 +0100 Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Montag, 5. Februar 2018, 08:49:34 CET schrieb ternaryd: > No that is not possible in any clean way. It > has been asked for a few times in the past > but so far no one was interested enough to > provide a patch that

Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread ternaryd
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 21:40:30 +0100 KOVÁCS István wrote: > I think the focus points recorded in the > image are often irrelevant, e.g. if you use > focus-then-recompose. I guess you are right; this is rather pointless for cameras not allowing to choose one or several

Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread darktable
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:38:50 +0100 ternaryd wrote: >I was thinking more of an analogy to the >indication of sharpness in lighttable (ctrl-z). >This would mean a similar drawing, but a way >simpler task of finding the spots, which must >be really hard when qualifying image

Re: [darktable-user] Focuspoints

2018-02-05 Thread KOVÁCS István
I think the focus points recorded in the image are often irrelevant, e.g. if you use focus-then-recompose. The focus data in the image would probably show the central focus point, which may easily point at the background by the time the picture is taken. (I realise this is less of an issue with