Re: RAW/Versioning improvement ideas

["Alexandre Prokoudine" <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On 11/1/06, Peter Finley wrote:

> Add some code to automatically detect converted RAW files during the import
> process. For instance, say there is a RAW file called 'img_0001.cr2'. Most
> often a file converted from this will retain the same base filename, such as
> 'img_0001.jpeg'. During the import process, this could be detected and the
> JPEG file could be automatically added as a version of the RAW file. Again,
> this suffers from the same limitation of #2.

I have a very bad feeling about this approach.

Let's have a look at workflow. At what stage do you want JPEG?

1. When you want to send files to photolab?
2. When you want to export photos to Flickr/PicasaWeb/etc.?
3. At some other stage?

If [1] and/or [2], how much sense does it have to keep JPEG around
_all the time_? If photos could be processed non-destructively and
shown in processed form in F-Spot, would you still want having JPEG
around or would you be happy with possibility to easily export
processed originals with required settings (print/web) on demand?

Maybe it's about time to hear from all F-Spot users who shoot to RAW
what workflow is ideal for them?

Alexandre