[OSGeo-Discuss] Dealing with proprietary data using OSS tools.
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Wed Mar 21 17:15:03 PDT 2018
Ok. But, and this may be a dumb question, it's a very fancy, expensive
looking camera - one presumes that the person taking the pictures has
the software that goes with it. Can one not ask the person providing
the imagery to convert the raw files to a more usable format?
Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 8:03 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <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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