Pascal de Bruijn has a cool blog about Ubuntu, photography and more. You find the feed for the latest entries of the photography section in the sidebar.
He has understood colour management and made a suite of programs available for Ubuntu. Simply add this
deb http://ubuntu.pcode.nl/ubuntu intrepid exiv2 lensfun ufraw argyll
to your repositories. His version of UFRaw uses a more up to date version of exiv2, which can write EXIF to TIFF, and integrates lensfun, which can do automatic lens correction during the raw conversion. ArgyllCMS can be used to calibrate screens using a colorimeter, even some affordable ones.
And he shows a way to make a icc profile for your own camera. You need a not so cheap (Wolfgang Faust does sell reasonably priced camera targets (C1) for 30EUR including shipping for Europe) target and good sun. Perhaps some people are interested in sharing such targets?
I’ll follow that closely!
I can’t use the i386 versions, I need the amd64 :o(
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@Jeff: I have a amd64 but run Ubuntu 32. I started with a 64 installation, but the spped advantage was so small / not visible that it wasn’t worth the hassle with all the libs and so on.
@ninai: thanks!
Great! That’s exactly what I was looking for all of the time. The DEBs of UFRaw haven’t been with LensFun support up to now.
@Jeffrey, I have the sources available as well, so you can rebuild it for AMD64 yourself. Just replace deb with deb-src, or just browse my repository with Firefox and you’ll find the sources soon enough.
And indeed LensFun is great!
Thak you for the news