On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ulrich Pegelow
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 10.03.2013 13:29, schrieb Pascal de Bruijn:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pq9vprixfvco6c5/WZnCjCSAlR
>>
>> The behavior of the lensfun module is a bit strange indeed, as I can't
>> select another lens at all...
>>
>
> The problem seems to be that we do a lensfun search with LF_SEARCH_LOOSE
> when we try to find a lens. I don't know what lensfun does exactly then,
> but I assume it will just try to find the closest match, whatever that
> is. In this case it is:
>
> lens: A-Serien Linsen, maker: Carl Zeiss, model: VCL-MHG07a
>
> That's way off. All is still OK in the beginning, as long as the camera
> name is not set manually. The camera is not found, because we are
> looking for an exact camera match. If module lens correction does not
> get an exact match in the database no correction is applied.
>
> As soon as the camera is manually selected, our module assumes all is
> good and a correction is done. However, with the wrong choice of a lens  :(
>
> I was not involved, but we probably do the loose search in order to
> overcome variations in writing when in comes to the lens names. Probably
> it was found that all too often a lens was not detected although it was
> existing in the database with a slightly different spelling.
>
> Not sure how we can overcome this situation. One solution could be a
> blacklist of lens names which libexiv2 will typically report if the
> photo was taken with a pure mechanical lens. If the lens is one of those
> we avoid any automatic detection. I fear that the blacklist might get
> quite long. On my system for the two incumbent files the lens is
> reported with a German string, even if I start darktable with LANG=C.
> Different cameras will have different strings etc.

Well, the thing I find particularly strange is, that manual selection
gets disabled as well...

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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