[OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.

[Tim Uckun]

They don't list prices for their software and there are no downloads. I am
guessing they charge for the software and knowing this company it's not
going to be cheap.


On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
> wrote:

> According to the camera's data sheet, their FramePro software will take
> the proprietary format and output "Distortion-free, 8 and 16-bit JPEG, TIFF
> and BSQ images with RGB, RGBN, NRG, NIR and NDVI band combinations"
>
> It doesn't really seem unreasonable for a camera to use a proprietary
> internal format, as long as they provide software to convert it to standard
> formats.  Particularly if it's a camera with some special sensor
> characteristics.
>
> The real question is whether they provide their software with the camera,
> or whether you have to pay beaucoup bucks for it.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>
>
> On 3/21/18 7:13 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:
>
> I just upgraded but no luck with this file. Leica still sells this camera
> so they have no incentive to open up their formats. You can only process
> this file with their software apparently.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Newcomb, Doug <doug_newcomb at fws.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> Tim,
>> A new version of Rawtherapee came out today,  Also,
>> http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Adding_Support_for_New_Raw_Formats
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Tim Uckun <timuckun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yea that was one of the first ones I tried. It looks like this raw file
>>> is proprietary so nothing is going to open it.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:57 AM, Newcomb, Doug <doug_newcomb at fws.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you looked at darktable , https://www.darktable.org/?  It works
>>>> with a lot of Raw image formats.  Not sure if it will handle any
>>>> georeferencing information that might be associated with the image.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to deal with output from a Leica RCD30 camera used in
>>>>> Aerial surveying. The camera outputs .RAW files but these files are not
>>>>> recognized by any of the tools I have used so far.  Oddly enough they
>>>>> actually have tiff headers but renaming them to .tiff doesn't work either.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anybody has any experience decoding these files and turning them
>>>>> into geotiffs I would appreciate it if they dropped me a line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Doug Newcomb
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