Favorable reviwe of digiKam in German c't magazine

[Gerhard Kulzer]

The most highly regarded German IT magazin c't has today published as a main
article a review comparing digikam 0.9.2 to Kphotoalbum 3.0.2, Gthumb 2.10.3,
F-Spot 0.3.5, Picasa 2.2.0. Digikam comes out ahead of the pack by far :-)))

Those people are amazing, they found all the menus used the very latest
version.

I have some spy copies for interested German readers.

Gerhard

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Saturday 23 June 2007 schrieb Thorsten Schnebeck:

> Am Samstag 23 Juni 2007 schrieb Gerhard Kulzer:
> > The most highly regarded German IT magazin c't has today published as a
> > main article a review comparing digikam 0.9.2 to Kphotoalbum 3.0.2,
> > Gthumb 2.10.3, F-Spot 0.3.5, Picasa 2.2.0. Digikam comes out ahead of the
> > pack by far :-)))
> >
> > Those people are amazing, they found all the menus used the very latest
> > version.
> >
> > I have some spy copies for interested German readers.
>
> Hi Gerhard Kulzer;
> I Spy :-)
>
> Danke!
>
>   Thorsten

Cheers

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2007/6/24, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:

Am Saturday 23 June 2007 schrieb Thorsten Schnebeck:

> Am Samstag 23 Juni 2007 schrieb Gerhard Kulzer:
> > The most highly regarded German IT magazin c't has today published as a
> > main article a review comparing digikam 0.9.2 to Kphotoalbum 3.0.2,
> > Gthumb 2.10.3, F-Spot 0.3.5, Picasa 2.2.0. Digikam comes out ahead of the
> > pack by far :-)))
> >
> > Those people are amazing, they found all the menus used the very latest
> > version.
> >
> > I have some spy copies for interested German readers.
>
> Hi Gerhard Kulzer;
> I Spy :-)
>
> Danke!
>
>   Thorsten

Cheers

I'm not German guy, and i don't under article... But i think there is a error :

Article10.jpg ==> BildBearbeitung/Tonen/sepia ==> of course digiKam support Sepia conversion thrue editor...


Gilles
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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 24 June 2007 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

> 2007/6/24, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:
> > Am Saturday 23 June 2007 schrieb Thorsten Schnebeck:
> > > Am Samstag 23 Juni 2007 schrieb Gerhard Kulzer:
> > > > The most highly regarded German IT magazin c't has today published as
> >
> > a
> >
> > > > main article a review comparing digikam 0.9.2 to Kphotoalbum 3.0.2,
> > > > Gthumb 2.10.3, F-Spot 0.3.5, Picasa 2.2.0. Digikam comes out ahead of
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > pack by far :-)))
> > > >
> > > > Those people are amazing, they found all the menus used the very
> >
> > latest
> >
> > > > version.
> > > >
> > > > I have some spy copies for interested German readers.
> > >
> > > Hi Gerhard Kulzer;
> > > I Spy :-)
> > >
> > > Danke!
> > >
> > >   Thorsten
> >
> > Cheers
>
> I'm not German guy, and i don't under article... But i think there is a
> error :
>
> Article10.jpg ==> BildBearbeitung/Tonen/sepia ==> of course digiKam support
> Sepia conversion thrue editor...
>
>
> Gilles

That's true Gilles, I'll tell them.

Gerhard

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[Rainer Krienke-3]

Am Sonntag, 24. Juni 2007 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

> I'm not German guy, and i don't under article... But i think there is a
> error :
>
> Article10.jpg ==> BildBearbeitung/Tonen/sepia ==> of course digiKam support
> Sepia conversion thrue editor...

You are right this is an error. Probably they missed this feature. However
they concluded that anyone who wants to work with digital photos under linux
should use digikam, its the best. Their second choice is the wine emulation
of picasa, and next come the gnome applications gthumb and F-Spot.

What they criticised was the search for similar photos. They missed a way to
compare photos where you click on a photo and say "search for similar ones".
Another point was the video export function. They say that digikam  does not
use the "freeze image" format for this purpose, which results according to
c't in videos with low resolution photos in it.

What they like were especially the dialogs for correting photos with the
different preview choices as well as the tools for auto correction of photos
and the OpenGL photo presentation module. Othe good points where the search
function and the good support for EXIV and IPTC.  


@Gerhard:
When I first klicked on your mail my mailer got stuck for about 30sec. I first
thought something was wrong (I access my mail via a 2MBit DSL line). I think
it would have been better to store the article-jpg's somewhere on a web
server and to mail only a link to them. This way mail access is faster.

Have a nice day
Rainer

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> I'm not German guy, and i don't under article... But i think there is a
> error :
>
> Article10.jpg ==> BildBearbeitung/Tonen/sepia ==> of course digiKam support
> Sepia conversion thrue editor...
>
>
> Gilles

First, thanks Gerald,

as the c't makes quite hard but fair reviews the digikam team can be really
proud with this test result and notes

There is another error in the table:
digikams auto correction tool is not only based on colors but also on contrast
and brightness.

I'm not sure about the virtual folder remark ("only based on searching" ), as
IMHO date view, tag view are also kind of virtual folders but I don't know
what the definition here is.

There is one interesting point in the text:
Why the functions of the the cam photo importer are not available for import
photos from folder so that features like exif rotation or automatically
setting IPTC labels can also be used there.

They also missed searching on EXIF or IPTC data.

A weak point of the whole test is the missing advanced stuff like 16 bit color
or CMS so the focus is more on the casual JPEG use case.

Bye

  Thorsten



 
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2007/6/24, Thorsten Schnebeck <[hidden email]>:

> I'm not German guy, and i don't under article... But i think there is a
> error :
>
> Article10.jpg ==> BildBearbeitung/Tonen/sepia ==> of course digiKam support
> Sepia conversion thrue editor...
>
>
> Gilles

First, thanks Gerald,

as the c't makes quite hard but fair reviews the digikam team can be really
proud with this test result and notes

There is another error in the table:
digikams auto correction tool is not only based on colors but also on contrast
and brightness.

I'm not sure about the virtual folder remark ("only based on searching" ), as
IMHO date view, tag view are also kind of virtual folders but I don't know
what the definition here is.

There is one interesting point in the text:
Why the functions of the the cam photo importer are not available for import
photos from folder so that features like exif rotation or automatically
setting IPTC labels can also be used there.

because it's planed to do it (there is a file in B.K.O). It's just delayed after KDE4 port. It's just a question of time...
 

They also missed searching on EXIF or IPTC data.

idem. DB structure need to be updated/changed/improved for that. Marcel working on...
 

A weak point of the whole test is the missing advanced stuff like 16 bit color
or CMS so the focus is more on the casual JPEG use case.

right

Gilles

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Dnia niedziela 24 czerwiec 2007, Thorsten Schnebeck napisał:
>
> There is one interesting point in the text:
> Why the functions of the the cam photo importer are not available for
> import photos from folder so that features like exif rotation or
> automatically setting IPTC labels can also be used there.

There is entry in BKO about that and with positive opinion from Gilles
so we can count on it some day :)

> They also missed searching on EXIF or IPTC data.

This is with birdie (v, don't know English name) in final table.

> A weak point of the whole test is the missing advanced stuff like 16 bit
> color or CMS so the focus is more on the casual JPEG use case.

That would simply lead to massacre of all competitors :)

m.

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