Re: Fwd: Re: DNG conversion in Digikam

Posted by Gerhard Hoogterp on Apr 28, 2021; 6:29pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-users-DNG-conversion-in-Digikam-tp4716165p4716203.html

On woensdag 28 april 2021 19:58:52 CEST Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Maik,

>

> I think the Adobe SDK is not the problem here. The SDk constructs a tiff/EP

> compatible file with the Raw image data extracted with libraw.

>

> The SDK make a base tiff file with few metadata, no more. The main job to

> backport information from RAW to DNG is done by Exiv2, and perhaps unsafe

> tags are backport too much from original file to the target one.

>

> I think ExifTool will be the ultimate solution here...

>

 

So if I understand you right, exiv2 is used to ex(tract) the metadata en to insert it into the dng file?

In that case I should take this issue to the exiv2 maintainers.

 

Gerhard

 

 

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