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| DATE | 2013-04-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Graphics and Photographs
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 01:21:01PM -0400, einker wrote:
> Nice to see an alternative for ufraw.
To be honest, I think ufraw is fundementally broken, It has no sane
default configuration and once you fiddle with settings, you can NEVER
get a sane setup ever again from it.
And who the hell knows what those crappy options are for. I'm sick of
applications without documentation, especially one that is so
senstiviely to be turned out of whack and rendered useless.
> Its been a bit of a hassle to use
> ufraw even though its a package on OpenBSD as well as GIMP. I've found that
> RAW images are the easiest to work with especially if you do a lot of
> post-processing in photo software. The challenge with RAW is that whatever
> software you use, better make sure it supports the make AND model of your
> camera.
ufraw does recognize my camera and even the lens.... it still doesn't
know what the hell to make of that data.
> I have a Pentax K-5 and almost all photo software has the ability
> to manipulate my RAW images but newer Pentax cameras like the K-5 II have
> slightly different RAW files which at least 50% of the software i've seen
> wont work with those ... Its easier to use Pentax's photo utility software
> to do manual processing of RAW than use GIMP in some cases .......
>
This other application also seems to have an infinite number of
undocumented and weird setting, but at least it has a sane default
configuration.
What a waste. Even the GIMP has no damn documentation. I brought a
book and It doesn't seem to have much help.
Ruben
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