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

[Miles Fidelman]

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 
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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