I originally sent this message to the Fedora users list, but the only response I got was a note from Patrick O'Callaghan suggesting it might be better directed to the KDE on Fedora list. (I had previously posted on the digikam users list, but got no response.) So here it is:
On a fully updated Fedora 20, I've had the following problems importing images from a Canon EOS SL1 since the update from digikam 3.5 to 4.0 (which I got July 26):
- The digikam camera window doesn't show thumbnails or previews, just icons for RAW and/or JPEG. I can't seem to preview the images to select the ones to import. Digikam does recognize the camera, it just won't show thumbnails or previews of the images on the camera.
- Digikam gets the date from JPEGs to do renaming as I have specified, but it seems to think that all of the RAW files were created on 1969-12-31 at 19:00:00, at least from the filenames it's generating. Once the files are imported (I just import all of them without doing any selection), the "File properties" in digikam shows the correct date for each image. (Well, up to time zone issues: my camera is set to Eastern Daylight Time, and Digikam seems to be interpreting that as Universal Time and then correcting for my computer's time zone, so things are off by 4 hours--but this was true before the update, too. Is this a configuration problem on my part?)
- I have digikam set to create a new sub-album with the date; so I have <root album>/<year>/<month>/<date>. I'm importing into the <month>. JPEGs are correctly put in a sub-album with the date, but RAW images are put into the <month>, not into a sub-album. I assume this is connected to not being able to correctly get the date for the RAW images during the import.
All of this (except for the time zone stuff) worked fine with 3.5. I tried downloading the bodhi builds of digikam 4.2 for Fedora 20, but I'm seeing the same issues as with 4.0. I looked through the digikam mailing list archives and saw that some other people had problems with previewing images from the camera with Canon cameras on 4.0, but the only response was a claim that digikam was using gphoto2, with no details or follow-up. (I can download the images from the gphoto2 command line, too. The problem is not seeing thumbnails in the camera window to decide what to download, or getting the dates on RAW images.) Shotwell seems to be able to generate thumbnails of images in the camera before downloading and gets the correct dates on RAW images.
I only started using digikam in early July, so it may well be that this is pilot error, but I haven't been able to figure it out from the documentation. I don't think I changed any digikam settings with the upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0, and nothing about the camera changed at that time.
Thanks for any help. If nobody's got a solution, should I file it on the Fedora bugzilla, or upstream?
George
On 08/20/14 23:24, George Avrunin wrote:
I originally sent this message to the Fedora users list, but the only response I got was a note from Patrick O'Callaghan suggesting it might be better directed to the KDE on Fedora list. (I had previously posted on the digikam users list, but got no response.) So here it is:
On a fully updated Fedora 20, I've had the following problems importing images from a Canon EOS SL1 since the update from digikam 3.5 to 4.0 (which I got July 26):
- The digikam camera window doesn't show thumbnails or previews, just icons for RAW and/or JPEG. I can't seem to preview the images to select the ones to import. Digikam does recognize the camera, it just won't show thumbnails or previews of the images on the camera.
This problem appears to be camera specific.
My Canon S95 will display previews for jpeg but not raw. My Canon EOS 600D will not display any previews. I get a "Failed to Download" indication when going to preview.
I don't have answers to your other 2 problems since I don't use those settings. But, I would think you're not missing anything. So, as you suggested, I would file bugzillas for each of the 2 (and I think it really is only 2) issues you are seeing.
(Snipped to save bits.... :-) )
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:05:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
This problem appears to be camera specific.
My Canon S95 will display previews for jpeg but not raw. My Canon EOS 600D will not display any previews. I get a "Failed to Download" indication when going to preview.
I don't have answers to your other 2 problems since I don't use those settings. But, I would think you're not missing anything. So, as you suggested, I would file bugzillas for each of the 2 (and I think it really is only 2) issues you are seeing.
Thanks. I just tried it with a an old Canon G9, and the digikam camera window shows previews. I will file bugzillas with Fedora.
George
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:03:05 -0400, George Avrunin wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:05:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
This problem appears to be camera specific.
My Canon S95 will display previews for jpeg but not raw. My Canon EOS 600D will not display any previews. I get a "Failed to Download" indication when going to preview.
I don't have answers to your other 2 problems since I don't use those settings. But, I would think you're not missing anything. So, as you suggested, I would file bugzillas for each of the 2 (and I think it really is only 2) issues you are seeing.
Thanks. I just tried it with a an old Canon G9, and the digikam camera window shows previews. I will file bugzillas with Fedora.
George
The lack of previews with some Canon cameras is already in Bugzilla: #1131244.
The date issue with RAW images is now #1132719.
On 08/22/14 06:28, George Avrunin wrote:
The lack of previews with some Canon cameras is already in Bugzilla: #1131244.
FWIW, it has also been reported upstream....
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338407
On 08/22/14 07:43, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/22/14 06:28, George Avrunin wrote:
The lack of previews with some Canon cameras is already in Bugzilla: #1131244.
FWIW, it has also been reported upstream....
This is now fixed in digikam-4.5.0-1.fc20 currently in updates-testing
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