[Shotwell] Possible bug?

[Bruce Smith]

Hi Scott

I have not installed 0.12 yet, but what you describe certainly happens 
with my RAW (Canon CR2) files in 0.11

Cheers
Bruce

On 29/03/12 15:37, Scott wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I havent seen anything on redmine or launchpad to this, so i thought 
> that i'd first check that it wasnt a known bug.  I know that Shotwell 
> doesn't handle RAW's particularly well at present, and that is fine, 
> but i just noticed another discrepancy in the handling of them.  When 
> you import plain RAW (not RAW+JPG pairs), in thumbnail form, the 
> extended information and the exposure, aperture etc. displays 
> correctly, however upon processing and first load of the image, 
> shotwell loses the EXIF data totally.
>
> The date/time is still there but exposure, aperture, flash, focal 
> length etc is all gone as the extended information is getting the exif 
> data from the processed image, to which shotwell does not copy exif 
> data to.  It doesn't matter if the developer is the camera or 
> shotwell, it loses the data in the developed image and, of course, in 
> the RAW is still there.
>
> If anyone who knows more about coding than i do needs some RAW's to 
> play with i am happy to dump a sample of some from different cameras 
> at different time periods on my web-space and post a link to the group 
> if need be.
>
> Does this already have a ticket, because i couldn't see one, and if 
> not would you like me to create one?
>
> Hopefully the issues with RAW can be sorted out, as this for me is the 
> only real downfall to the software - keep up the good work guys!\
>
> Scott.
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