Any Minolta/Sony users using UFRaw and GIMP?

Neil Ellwood wrote:

Have you tried Raw Studio or Raw Therapee ?

One final follow-up for those interested. I did install both programs and
tested them. It turns out that Raw Studio can properly display Minolta
(mrw) files but not Sony (arw) images. However, Raw Therapee appears to
work properly with both file types. I added screenshots to the webpage at:

http://smallthoughts.com/photos/misc/GIMP/index.html

showing the results. So I will be switching to Raw Therapee since it
is the tool that provides the best starting point for raw file editing.

Thanks Neil for the recommendation, and thank you to everyone else who offered
advice on the issue of UFRaw.

Regards,
--
Jeff

On 2014.04.12, 01:19 , Jeffery Small wrote:
Neil Ellwood wrote:

Have you tried Raw Studio or Raw Therapee ?

One final follow-up for those interested. I did install both programs and
tested them. It turns out that Raw Studio can properly display Minolta
(mrw) files but not Sony (arw) images. However, Raw Therapee appears to
work properly with both file types. I added screenshots to the webpageat:

http://smallthoughts.com/photos/misc/GIMP/index.html

showing the results. So I will be switching to Raw Therapee since it
is the tool that provides the best starting point for raw file editing.

This a.m. I installed Ubuntu (13.10) as a virtual machine under Fusion,
and then installed UFRaw (0.19.2-2ubuntu1) and the Gimp (2.8.6).

No issues at all with reading .arw or .mrw files in UFRwaw other than
initial settings being a little "out of whack" (to use highly technical
jargon) - but nowhere as bad as with your examples. However tossing the
file (using the UFRaw Gimp button) would not work. Had to save an
interim v. as .ppm and then open that in the Gimp.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zmqhpfxn2u...2011.08.25.jpg

(Likewise no issues in OS X with UFRaw / Gimp - and the toss (gimp
button) worked correctly).

Raw Therapee was clunky until I upped the cores available to Linux from
1 to 4 and increased Linux memory from 1 GB to 8 (2 or more would have
been enough, I'm sure).

--
"Big data can reduce anything to a single number,
but you shouldn’t be fooled by the appearance of exactitude."
-Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, NYT, 2014.04.07