Lech,
On 11/22/2010 03:42 PM, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote:
Hello,
First of all - thanks for a great piece of software.
Glad you like Shotwell! :)
I am about to move
all my data to shotwell soon. Well - there is still one thing (for me)
to go... TIFFs...
Yes. I know that there is this issue:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/601
but as far as I can see it's not receiving much love (if it's not true -
please let me know! It would be awesome if this could be fixed in "0.8,
which will appear some time in December"), but I am kind of confused.
0.8 will not include TIFF support, unfortunately. We're now past our
feature freeze for 0.8, which means we're pretty much just fixing bugs
at this point.
I have a Canon camera. I shoot in RAW mode and have files like this:
i...@macbook:~/Pictures/20100914/Test$ file *CR2
IMG_8851.CR2: TIFF image data, little-endian
IMG_8852.CR2: Canon CR2 raw image data, version 2.0
i...@macbook:~/Pictures/20100914/Test$ ls -l *CR2
-rw------- 1 ike ike 9974438 Nov 14 16:26 IMG_8851.CR2
-rw------- 1 ike ike 9951470 Nov 14 16:26 IMG_8852.CR2
Of course shotwell imports the "real" RAWs just fine. I'm not good at
images formats so I am not sure if it's really TIFF or not.
I think these are probably both Canon CR2 RAW files, and the 'file'
utility is just confused about the first one. CR2 is actually based on
TIFF, as are many other RAW formats (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format).
FWIW eog shows TIFF without a problem.
Anyway - if you could tell me when TIFF support is coming (or if it's in
your timeframe at all) that would be great. Eventually I'll try to find
some tool to convert TIFFs to RAW.
TIFF is a reasonable candidate for Shotwell 0.9 or 0.10. You're not the
first to request this feature, and I agree that any solid photo manager
should really support TIFF, so I've just added this to our list of top
candidates for future releases at http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell.
If anyone out there wants to start hacking on this, we'd happily accept
a patch. :)
I doubt you'll find a utility to convert TIFF to RAW, actually, since
there are very few programs that write RAW formats - typically it's just
cameras that write them.
adam
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