Today a played again with my new equipment. I've been to the Baroque Garden Großsedlitz today (weather was gorgeous, and a all blue sky is nice to see vignetting ;-). All photos shown down were shot using the Tamrom f3.5-4.5/19-35mm at 19mm using f5.6 and I'm pleased with the results. You see almost no vignetting—that's unexpected as when I used this lens with film, you often were able to see it.
I decided to use flickr as main storage site for the pictures I don't present in my gallery on the main site as well (the included space for my site is too low to host too many pictures). Too speed up the uploads I just decided not to upload full 8.2 MP versions, but to limit the bigger side length to 2000 pixels (it's 2000 × 1333 for uncropped images). I updated f-spot to the CVS version and now I'm able to upload more than one picture at a time to flickr—the renaming and sorting (taggin, sets) need some work still.
And what's really nice working digital: no longer scanning and cleaning up the scan! It's really incredible how fast I can get a Cyanotype negative out of a raw (or a jpeg) and it even looks much cleaner than a scanned negative (no grain after some sharpening). I hope you'll see some results soon…
To load the raws with Gimp, I replaced rawphoto (which was already installed) by ufraw. It just has much more features.
Nice photos; also take a look at digikam which has some very good processing tools built-in.
Yes, I know digikam, but I'm a confident Gnome user ;-). Actually I like f-spot even if it is still in early development. For working on photos I use Gimp normally, but normally I only work much on photos when creating negatives for my Cyanotypes.
What I'm still looking for, is a tool to work in 16 bit (I don't like cinepaint much and currently I don't believe that Gimp will be able to handle 16 bit soon).
Hiya, take a look at digikam <a href="http://www.omat.nl/drupal/?...">again</a>.
Actually f-spot already can load RAWs (I didn't realise, that digikam doesn't yet). The histogram looks nice in the digikam screenshot, though (that's still missing in f-spot, but I think worked on).
But I rather like Gimp to support more than 8 bits because I expect that the Cyanotype negatives will benefit by it. For these I need a full featured graphics program anyway.
Just tested in f-spot: the current available edit functions don't work on RAWs (CR2s) because it can't save. But in f-spot (or any other management program) it's just important for me to view RAWs, tag them and so on. Currently the sorting in f-spot isn't perfect if there is a CR2 and a JPEG with the same name...
Feel free to file bugs about the F-Spot raw support, I'm still actively working out the details and input is always welcome. Editing support should start landing in the next month. What problems are you having with sorting?