set metadata to both jpg and raw images in one go

[Jens Nie-3]

Hey list.

I am a lucky owner of a Nikon D300 and am used to shoot in raw+(jpg) fine
mode. The idea behind this is to simply use the jpg if the photo looks like it
should be, or develop the raw image to get the most out of it where needed.

When it comes to processing with digikam i was wondering if it would be
possible to set the image tags for the jpg and raw images in one go, or if
there would be any other kind of synchronizing magic for that.

My workflow currently is like the following.I transfer all images from the cf-
card using a USB card reader. I configured digikam to sort all files in
folders corresponding to the images shooting date and subfolders for the jpgs
and nefs. After that i start tagging and ranking the jpgs. In that step i
would like to have all corresponding nefs tagged and ranked as well.

I create 'real' albums by creating named searches using tagging, ranking and
date metadata, which is a real fantastic feature of digikam (which - yes -
some other win and mac apps have as well, but ...).

Is that already possible within digikam? Or is there some tool outside of
digikam to make use of?

Best regards.

Jens
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Hi,

I have a D300 to. personally i shoot only in Raw. After i tag and rate the raw in digikam and after i convert the raw in jpg with a batch in Nikon capture.
After conversion jpg and raw are tag and rate.

in View NX you could see raw and jpeg who have the same name as one picture.
you could filter picture to see :
-only raw
-only Jpeg
-raw and Jpeg
-raw + Jpeg as one pricture
digikam have the same sort of filter except for the last one.
by the raw + Jpeg filter you could tag the two pictures at the same time.

This feature could bee very interesting in digikam

Best Regards.
 

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Sylvain CROUZILLAT

2009/8/27 Jens Nie <[hidden email]>

Hey list.

I am a lucky owner of a Nikon D300 and am used to shoot in raw+(jpg) fine
mode. The idea behind this is to simply use the jpg if the photo looks like it
should be, or develop the raw image to get the most out of it where needed.

When it comes to processing with digikam i was wondering if it would be
possible to set the image tags for the jpg and raw images in one go, or if
there would be any other kind of synchronizing magic for that.

My workflow currently is like the following.I transfer all images from the cf-
card using a USB card reader. I configured digikam to sort all files in
folders corresponding to the images shooting date and subfolders for the jpgs
and nefs. After that i start tagging and ranking the jpgs. In that step i
would like to have all corresponding nefs tagged and ranked as well.

I create 'real' albums by creating named searches using tagging, ranking and
date metadata, which is a real fantastic feature of digikam (which - yes -
some other win and mac apps have as well, but ...).

Is that already possible within digikam? Or is there some tool outside of
digikam to make use of?

Best regards.

Jens
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[Jens Nie-3]

On Thursday 27 August 2009 21:38:46 Sylvain CROUZILLAT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a D300 to. personally i shoot only in Raw. After i tag and rate the
> raw in digikam and after i convert the raw in jpg with a batch in Nikon
> capture.
> After conversion jpg and raw are tag and rate.

I recently 'upgraded' to the D300 from a D50. On the D50 i also only shooted
in raw, as that camera hadn't had the feature to create a jpeg in maximum
quality at the same time. Now as the D300 has this feature i decided to start
exploring that way. And i am quite satisfied with most of the jpegs the camera
produces. A conversion from raw just makes no difference, and so a lot of
images are ready with the download, which saves an awful lot of time.

>
> in View NX you could see raw and jpeg who have the same name as one
> picture. you could filter picture to see :
> -only raw
> -only Jpeg
> -raw and Jpeg
> -raw + Jpeg as one pricture
> digikam have the same sort of filter except for the last one.
> by the raw + Jpeg filter you could tag the two pictures at the same time.

That would be pretty much it, i think. As a workaround i started coding around
in python with the exiv2 library, which provides access to exif and iptc tags.
However there does not seem to be any write support for these tags on nef
files. Reading however works like a charm. I could of course switch the
workflow to do everything the other way round and start tagging and ranking on
the nefs and afterwards apply all tags to the corresponding jpegs with a
little python script. But this is not as it should be, as i think it is a lot
faster to deal with the jpegs first.

>
> This feature could bee very interesting in digikam
>
> Best Regards.
>
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Best regards

Jens
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