On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > Thibouille, I have a proposal but indeed it requires an approval of > another club member. > > Perhaps you could pair with John Francis and come up with nice GUI and > may be handful of extensions for his program that analyzes Pentax RAW > file headers. Ultimately, this could becomes an open source project > where all of us could invest a bit of their effort. > > But I do realize this is just a crazy idea and of course John is the one > who should be asked for permission.
Whil I don't have any objection (the source code was put up for any use people chose) I don't think this is a particularly valuable idea. If Thibouille follows the suggestions (which I heartily endorse) to write a utility to extract EXIF tags and store them in a database then presumably MakerNote (and/or DNGPrivateData) information would be stored as well - it seems pointless to limit the EXIF extraction to just a few selected fields. About the only suggestions I would make (and which I could help with) would be to convert MakerNote tags to DNGPrivateData tags (rather as is done in the Adobe Raw Converter, although I'd suggest using a tag layout that matches the one in Pentax DNG files), and to create an EXIF LensInformation tag from the Lens ID in the Pentax private data. Writing a utility that can perform wildcard and/or directory tree operations in a cross-platform manner will be difficult enough. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
