Digikam is extremely slow with D7000 images

[Linuxguy123]

I find Digikam is slow or extremely slow when working with D7K images.

I shoot everything in raw and generate jpgs from them.

- it takes a long time to display the thumbnails in the gallery, whether
or not I exclude the raws

- its slow moving between the thumbnails and images.  There is a very
noticeable delay going from image to image.

- it takes forever to display the thumbnails on the import page from a
USB card reader.   As a matter of fact, it generally crashes before ~200
images loaded on a card can be displayed

All this is compared to working with 40D images the same way.

Rawstudio has none of these problems.  It loads all the thumbnails in
mere seconds.

My computer has a T8100 with 4GB of RAM and an SSD drive.

$ yum list kdebase
Installed Packages
kdebase.i686
6:4.5.3-1.fc13
@kde-testing

$ yum list digikam
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
digikam.i686
1.5.0-1.fc13.1
@kde-testing

]$ yum list rawstudio
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
rawstudio.i686
1.2-6.fc13.20100907svn3521
@updates-testing

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Oct 19
04:24:06 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks !

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Please provide a set of D7000 RAW files to test in local

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/9 Linuxguy123 <[hidden email]>:

> I find Digikam is slow or extremely slow when working with D7K images.
>
> I shoot everything in raw and generate jpgs from them.
>
> - it takes a long time to display the thumbnails in the gallery, whether
> or not I exclude the raws
>
> - its slow moving between the thumbnails and images.  There is a very
> noticeable delay going from image to image.
>
> - it takes forever to display the thumbnails on the import page from a
> USB card reader.   As a matter of fact, it generally crashes before ~200
> images loaded on a card can be displayed
>
> All this is compared to working with 40D images the same way.
>
> Rawstudio has none of these problems.  It loads all the thumbnails in
> mere seconds.
>
> My computer has a T8100 with 4GB of RAM and an SSD drive.
>
> $ yum list kdebase
> Installed Packages
> kdebase.i686
> 6:4.5.3-1.fc13
> @kde-testing
>
> $ yum list digikam
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> digikam.i686
> 1.5.0-1.fc13.1
> @kde-testing
>
> ]$ yum list rawstudio
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit
> Installed Packages
> rawstudio.i686
> 1.2-6.fc13.20100907svn3521
> @updates-testing
>
> uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Oct 19
> 04:24:06 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks !
>
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[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:32 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Please provide a set of D7000 RAW files to test in local

Sure.  Where/how ?

Thanks

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

use a place on the web to share files.

Gilles

2010/11/9 Linuxguy123 <[hidden email]>:

> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:32 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> Please provide a set of D7000 RAW files to test in local
>
> Sure.  Where/how ?
>
> Thanks
>
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[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 22:10 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> use a place on the web to share files.
OK.

I'll see if I can upload them to one of my Picasa accounts.

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[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 22:10 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> use a place on the web to share files.

Picassa won't let me upload a NEF file.  I'm working on an alternative
method.

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[Gerlando]

On giovedì 11 novembre 2010 17:37:44, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 22:10 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > use a place on the web to share files.
>
> Picassa won't let me upload a NEF file.  I'm working on an alternative
> method.

I suggest you http://filebin.ca/

You can upload there any file and get an URL to post here, so people can
download your file.

bye
gerlos


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[gerlos]

On giovedì 11 novembre 2010 17:37:44, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 22:10 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > use a place on the web to share files.
>
> Picassa won't let me upload a NEF file.  I'm working on an alternative
> method.

I suggest you http://filebin.ca/

You can upload there any file and get an URL to post here, so people can
download your file.

bye
gerlos

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[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 05:24 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:

> I find Digikam is slow or extremely slow when working with D7K images.
>
> I shoot everything in raw and generate jpgs from them.
>
> - it takes a long time to display the thumbnails in the gallery, whether
> or not I exclude the raws
>
> - its slow moving between the thumbnails and images.  There is a very
> noticeable delay going from image to image.
>
> - it takes forever to display the thumbnails on the import page from a
> USB card reader.   As a matter of fact, it generally crashes before ~200
> images loaded on a card can be displayed

I'm happy to report that with DK 1.6 and Fedora 14, things are much,
much better.  About 10x faster, for some reason.

D7000 images are very large.  14 bit lossless raw files are nearly 20MB
and don't ask how big TIFFs are.  So things are naturally slower than
working with smaller files.    

But Digikam gets the job done and after the index files have loaded for
the first time, the response times are pretty good.

Keep up the good work !

LG

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