On Thu, October 27, 2011 12:26, gerry wrote: >> > On 26 October 2011 10:58, Sarah Chard <sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Hi >> > my friend who uses Ubuntu and is a keen photographer has >> > bought a new camera and is haveing problems with it - she says >> > >> > The camera i am using is the Sony a55 and i can't find any >> > photo editor, gimp included that can process the a55 files. >> > >> > can anyone help? >> > >> > Sarah >> > >> > >> > What format are the images being saved as? If the camera is set to >> > save images in RAW format then they will need to be processed into >> > something else such as JPG or TIF She should be able to set the >> > camera to save images as JPG etc. >> > Seoras >> I suggested this but she needs to save them as RAW files so she gets >> high quality images and good contrast - apparently saving them as jpegs >> mean that she may get too much bleaching in certain images. >> Sarah
>> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:27:34 +0100 >> From: mac <ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk> >> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> >> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] sony camers files >> Message-ID: <4ea7e096.2000...@gmx.co.uk> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> On 26/10/2011 11:06, Alan Pope wrote: >> > On 26 October 2011 10:58, Sarah Chard<sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >> The camera i am using is the Sony a55 and i can't find any photo >> editor, >> >> gimp included that can process the a55 files. >> > >> > They're probably RAW files. Gimp has a plugin for that called >> > "gimp-ufraw" which can be installed via software centre. >> > >> > Also there's a package called "rawstudio" which can manipulate RAW >> files. >> >> Not sure the Sony A55 is supported by UFRaw: >> >> http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html >> >> Looks like you may be able to use it if you install the latest version >> of dcraw, which UFRaw uses. See last comment here: >> >> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1037&message=37616086&changemode=1 >> >> mac -- I just started out using raw and I am just using ufraw-batch on the command line to batch process all raw images into JPEGs, which are of sufficient quality to be used for general use, e.g. just as a family photo album, no professional stuff. This way, if I like the look of some of them and think I could do something better with this one or that one, I know I have a RAW version of it available. The problem I am thinking about is how to best manage storage of RAW and JPEG... should I keep them all? Should I bin the RAWs after viewing the JPEGs and deciding not to do anything with them, but then risk at a later date wishing I hadn't binned the RAWs... can't keep everything I suppose... I have many Gb of photos just in JPEG. If I start duplicating every one with a RAW as well, I would need far too much storage space I think. -- Thanks and regards, Jon Reynolds ---------------------------- http:www.jcrdevelopments.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
