Re: [gcmd-dev] Some thoughts about the fileviewer

[Piotr Eljasiak]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:44 +0200, Magnus Stålnacke wrote:
> Piotr Eljasiak wrote:
> > 
> > It is based partially on dcraw code and currently supports only raw
> > files of CANON, FUJI, OLYMPUS and NIKON. It's GPLed, so obviously we can
> > reuse the code for our project
> > 
> > 
> > I don't believe that raw format is capable of handling Exif/IPTC data... 
> 
> Well.. both yes and no.
> 
> All still-camera raw formats also contains an embeded
> jpeg, that is what the camera uses for its display, and
> that embeded jpeg can contain exif, i think that is how
> it works in the Nikon-case, but not Canon that beside the
> quite big embeded jpeg has a small separate thumb containing
> exif. And there is no absoulte "capable or not capable"
> overall since every camera has its own proprietary raw
> format (dcraw does them all).
> 

You're right - talking about a raw format is a bit misleading here. In
fact, there are many (proprietary) raw formats (Nikon, Canon, ...).

Piotr