[Lancaster] Digital Image Processing -- EXIF data and RAW files

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
> It might be worth writing a little web-page describing the full stack of 
> software available for using the camera under Linux

Yes! I did wonder about that. Being new to Digital photography, I 
believed what I read about file formats being proprietory and thus the 
need to use the Microsoft based software provided with the camera.

I was resigned to having to use MS Windows, or doing without access to 
RAW files and to EXIF data in JPEG files.

I now know this not to be the case, at least for PENTAX *istD SLR. At 
the end of this message is a list of cameras known to work with 'dcraw v6.2.

> 
> How the camera is made availble to linux
> How to get the pictures off the camera

In the case of distos like SuSE (v9.1), it couldn't be simpler. Just 
plug in the USB cable, switch on the camera and wait a couple of 
seconds. The camera is automounted as a USB storage device (under 
/media/usb....). Its then a matter of copying files to wherever......

> Any software for reading image type (with links to homepages)
> Plugins and stuff for other apps for image editing etc.

WRT software, I use GIMP v2.0 (with RAW plugin) for image processing and 
kuickshow to have a look at JPEG files. The latter can be used to give a 
basic slide show. Desktop manager is KDE 3.2.

With the RAW plugin, GIMP will handle all of the file formats commonly 
used on digital cameras. ie RAW, TIFF and JPEG. The only restriction 
AFAIK is that GIMP (without plugins) will not handle 16 bit files that 
are now found on the latest (very expensive) generation of digital SLRs.

> 
> We should really document this stuff better (I've started with stuff at uni: 
> http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~martyn/ - Look at "unpublished" stuff)
> 
> This way someone with the same camera/someone thinking about buying a camera 
> can easily find info describing how it works with Linux.

Good idea! I doubt that I'm the best person to do it, as I rely on the 
user friendly approach (eg SuSE) and would have difficulty in helping 
the likes of Debian users.

BTW, I like your web page. Glad to learn that you are making progress 
with PICs under Linux. I might one day have a play with this myself. My 
soldering iron hand is getting itchy again.

Regards

Ken Hough

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'dcraw' v6.2 is reported to work for RAW files from the following cameras:

Canon PowerShot 600
Canon PowerShot A5
Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom
Canon PowerShot A50
Canon PowerShot Pro70
Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
Canon PowerShot G1
Canon PowerShot G2
Canon PowerShot G3
Canon PowerShot G5
Canon PowerShot G6
Canon PowerShot S30
Canon PowerShot S40
Canon PowerShot S45
Canon PowerShot S50
Canon PowerShot S70
Canon PowerShot Pro1
Canon EOS D30
Canon EOS D60
Canon EOS 10D
Canon EOS 20D
Canon EOS 300D
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Canon EOS Kiss Digital
Canon EOS D2000C
Canon EOS-1D
Canon EOS-1DS
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Casio QV-2000UX
Casio QV-3000EX
Casio QV-3500EX
Casio QV-4000
Casio QV-5700
Casio Exlim Pro 600
Contax N DIGITAL
Creative PC-CAM 600
Creo Leaf Valeo 22
Fuji FinePix S2Pro
Fuji FinePix S5000
Fuji FinePix S7000
Fuji FinePix E550
Fuji FinePix F700
Fuji FinePix S20Pro
Imacon Ixpress
Kodak DC20 (see Oliver Hartman's page)
Kodak DC25 (see Jun-ichiro Itoh's page)
Kodak DC40 (aka "Logitech Fotoman Pixtura")
Kodak DC50
Kodak DC120 (also try kdc2tiff)
Kodak DCS315C
Kodak DCS330C
Kodak DCS420
Kodak DCS460
Kodak DCS460A
Kodak DCS520C
Kodak DCS560C
Kodak DCS620C
Kodak DCS620X
Kodak DCS660C
Kodak DCS660M
Kodak DCS720X
Kodak DCS760C
Kodak DCS760M
Kodak EOSDCS1
Kodak EOSDCS3B
Kodak NC2000F
Kodak ProBack
Kodak PB645C
Kodak PB645H
Kodak PB645M
Kodak DCS Pro 14n
Kodak DCS Pro 14nx
Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c
Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
Konica KD-400Z
Konica KD-510Z
Leica Digilux 2
Minolta DiMAGE 5
Minolta DiMAGE 7
Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Minolta DiMAGE A1
Minolta DiMAGE A2
Minolta DiMAGE G400
Minolta DiMAGE G500
Minolta DiMAGE G600
Minolta DiMAGE Z2
Nikon D1
Nikon D1H
Nikon D1X
Nikon D100
Nikon D2H
Nikon D70
Nikon E950 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E990 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E995 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E2100 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E2500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E4300 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E4500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
Nikon E5000
Nikon E5400
Nikon E5700
Nikon E8700
Nikon E8800
Olympus C5050Z
Olympus C5060WZ
Olympus C8080WZ
Olympus E-1
Olympus E-10
Olympus E-20
Panasonic DMC-LC1
Pentax *ist D
Pentax Optio S
Pentax Optio S4
Phase One LightPhase
Phase One H10
Phase One H20
Phase One H25
Rollei d530flex
Sigma SD9
Sigma SD10
Sinar 12582980-byte
Sony DSC-F828