On 02.11.2014 20:58, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 10/31/2014 11:47 AM, poma wrote:
>> On 30.10.2014 21:58, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> On 10/29/2014 01:15 PM, poma wrote:
>>>> On 28.10.2014 21:27, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>>> On 10/28/2014 06:58 AM, poma wrote:
>>>>>> On 27.10.2014 20:40, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/27/2014 12:13 PM, poma wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 27.10.2014 00:53, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/27/14 07:48, poma wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> You might try to contact the author
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/
>>>>>>>>> The first few sentences on that site would seem to answer all the 
>>>>>>>>> questions....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "....My software is for processing those images *after* downloading 
>>>>>>>>> them."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Touché.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> poma
>>>>>>> I'll probably contact the author as well. It fine to only support
>>>>>>> processing after downloading, but it should still display the contents
>>>>>>> of the files so that you can decide what to download to process.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great, never underestimate the social moment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> poma
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've checked Rawtherapee and Darktable for their functionality.
>>>>> Rawtherapee appears to not support importing photos from any source that
>>>>> is not mounted, whereas Darktable will import photos from any detected
>>>>> device and displays the contents of the photos on the camera when
>>>>> prompting for which photos should be imported from the camera, which
>>>>> presumably means that Darktable is not using dcraw the access the
>>>>> camera, it is doing it itself.
>>>>>
>>>> http://www.darktable.org/2012/10/whats-involved-with-adding-support-for-new-cameras/
>>>>     RAW format support
>>>>     darktable uses two libraries to read RAW files. Most common RAW 
>>>> formats are read via the RawSpeed library (by Klaus Post), more esoteric 
>>>> RAW formats not supported by RawSpeed are read via LibRaw (which in turn 
>>>> is based on Dave Coffin's dcraw).
>>> I've looked at the cameras.xml file linked to in the above web page and
>>> it lists the D3100 which I assume means RawSpeed has support for my
>>> camera, which would explain why Rawtable provides an on camera image
>>> preview when importing the files.
>>>> BTW did you check with the Rawstudio
>>>> http://rawstudio.org
>>> I haven't looked at this application as yet, mainly because until now I
>>> didn't know it existed.
>>>> Perhaps the only real issue with the Nikon D3100 is the lack of USB Mass 
>>>> Storage mode.
>>> Its not so much the lack of a USB Mass storage mode, its the lack of the
>>> ability to preview the contents of the images on camera when I want to
>>> copy the files to my network storage for processing in Photoshop
>>> Elements, and, with some of them to produce a photo print. I only want
>>> to copy the files I am going to keep, so I want the ability to view the
>>> images, delete the ones I don't want to keep, then mass extract the
>>> remaining files to my NAS. Hence for me the ability to mass preview the
>>> images on camera is paramount, and any application that is used to
>>> process the files needs to have the ability to do some rudimentary
>>> correction to the raw file and save those corrections in a separate
>>> "correction" file (the way the raw interface in the Photoshop
>>> applications do) so that the actual raw file is left unchanged, so that
>>> at the "corrections" file can be deleted at any time to back out the
>>> changes without impacting the original raw file.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Steve
>>>
>> In your case is just perhaps crucial.
>> Shall we start a thread again? :)
>> ptp != usb_storage
> 
> It probably should be, we have probably moved away from the original 
> reason for raising this thread.
> I think what this has moved to is that it seems that under Linux there 
> seems to be a requirement to take digital photos in Raw+JPG mode in 
> order for processes to be able to do what I want.
> 
> regards,
> Steve
> 

Next time you get the other camera in your hands, you 'll know what the 
functionality should be supported.


Hurray

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