Shotwell users,
RAW support in Shotwell is limited today, but we're looking forward to
making some improvements in 0.11 and following releases. Today,
Shotwell always develops all RAW photos at import time. As many of you
have pointed out, this can be slow and use lots of disk space. In the
near term, we'd like to make Shotwell more flexible by
(a) giving you the option for Shotwell to use embedded or paired
JPEG images instead of developing RAW files directly (b) possibly
deferring developing RAW photos until they are used
In the longer term, we want to to integrate Shotwell's adjustments into
the RAW pipeline so that you'll be able to use Shotwell to control RAW
developing directly (just like in programs such as UFRaw today). That
probably won't happen for a few releases, though.
We'd like to get some feedback from our users about RAW support in
Shotwell to help us prioritize our development efforts. If you'd like
to participate in this survey, please email your response to me
directly. I'll summarize the results to this mailing list sometime next
week. Please respond only if you use (or plan to use) Shotwell with RAW
photographs at least some of the time.
1. What kind of camera do you have?
2. When you shoot RAW, do you usually shoot RAW+JPEG, or RAW only?
3. What photo resolution do you shoot? If possible, can you tell us the
resolution of the JPEG images which your camera embeds in RAW photos?
(You can find out by running 'exiv2 -pp' on a photo, for example.)
4. Generally speaking, how does Shotwell's default rendering of your RAW
photographs compare today with the JPEG images/previews generated by
your camera? Please respond with one of the following: much better,
better, about the same, worse, much worse, unusably bad. If Shotwell's
rendering is poor, can you describe in a few words how it looks worse
(e.g. distortion? color shift? underexposed appearance?)
5. Suppose that Shotwell offered one or more of the following modes.
Which would you use by default?
a) Shotwell develops all RAW photos at import time. (This is how
Shotwell works today.)
b) Shotwell develops RAW photos only when you first open them. This
would speed importing and save disk space, but might add a delay of
several seconds before you could edit or zoom into a RAW photo after
first opening it.
c) Shotwell stores RAW+JPEG pairs as a single unit, and uses the JPEG
for rendering.
d) Shotwell renders a RAW photo using the JPEG embedded inside it.
6. With options (c) and (d) above, Shotwell could let you switch to a
RAW rendering for individual photos (and Shotwell would develop the RAW
photos only at that time.) Similarly, with options (a) and (b),
Shotwell could let you switch individual photos to render using an
embedded or paired JPEG. How often do you think you'd use this
switching feature?
7. Any other ideas or comments?
adam
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