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

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> ------ Original message ------
> On Tuesday 25 Jan 2005 12:24, Ken Hough wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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.
>>>
> 
> 
> I disagree. A debian user would probably be able to fill in the gaps/ 
> understand the technology that you would describe. Someone used to the user 
> friendly approach would probably find it extremely hard to gleam any 
> knowledge from a document written by a hardcore Linux guru.
> 

Point taken.

> It is best that this information is as compete (as far as your understanding 
> in concerned) and available to those users which may be wanting to switch to/ 
> try Linux, whom will most likely be using a user friendly distro.
>

Information provided by me would be very much SuSE orientated. Having 
spent a lot of time to become at least slightly familiar with the likes 
of Fedora, Mandrake and even Debian, I find SuSE does it for me -- and 
it works!

On that basis, there's really not much I can add to the info that I've 
already posted. One simply connects up the camera via USB, switches on 
and -- job done! I don't propose getting into a discourse on image 
processing. I'm only a beginner at that.

> 
>>>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.
>>>
> 
> 
> Wish I had more time to fiddle with it at the momment

Always a problem! Life's always too short. That's why I now concentrate 
on my favourite distro.

  - though some of the
> projects I am working close to might be moving to SDCC rather than the 
> proprietory compiler they currently use.
> 
> I'm working on hacking apart some programmer software (for getting programs 
> onto PICs) written for 2.4 kernel (uses kernel calls rather than APIs...) and 
> ncurses, to try and get it working with a free programmer with 2.6 for the 
> command line, rather than ncurses front end. It's not that I overly dislike 
> the ncurses front end, it's just that I want to be able to include it in a 
> GUI script...
> 

I like ncurses (mainly to give me colours and easy positioning of text) 
also the command line (an old DOSser at heart).

A few days ago, I demonstrated my Linux system to a neighbour who is 
mature and experienced in IT and is an MS Windows user. He just couldn't 
understand why I kept dropping into command line mode. I gave him a demo 
of internet access, Open Office, GIMP, radio/TV card and CD burning 
software. He was surprised and impressed and took away a Linux DVD (no 
prizes for guessing which distro). Maybe I'll have a convert.


Ken Hough