doing it once and not quite right is worse than not doing it at all. dcraw
doesn't produce anything usable except a composition preview. if i had only
that as the tool for RAW conversion, i would not bother shooting RAW. that's
not even considering the work needed to adjust an image to get its best
rendition. i've noticed that once Windows/Mac-refuseniks leave college, they
suddenly discover that their time is worth a lot more to them and that
buying applications suddenly becomes the cheaper alternative.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wigwam Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: First *ist Ds shots
That's what I like about Linux/Perl and scripting - do it once, let the
script do it from there on in. I dump the images in my 'raw' directory,
my script runs every five minutes, looking for new files to convert.
Finds one, invokes dcraw, then pipes result to imagemagick, saves as tif
and jpg - jpg then is ftp'd to my website, all nice and comfy. Five
minutes after I dump the day's shooting, the proofs are online for
viewing. Not perfect - they're proofs! If I see one that stands out, I
either go back to the TIF or the RAW and redo it by hand - works a treat.
I figure I manually process one out of thirty or so - if that. Most are
just dross, but that's ok.
