Comments on: Canon Digital Photo Professional in Ubuntu Linux

By: Yuval Levy

Yuval Levy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:21 +0000

I've tried to update my DPP and it seems that there is a regression in Wine. Read about it, and vote for it to be fixed.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:00:30 +0000

I tried installing DPP on my Lenovo R61 running 64bit OpenSuSE 10.3. I actually had to dig up some old CD’s to get it running. I tried the 14.1 disc from my 40D, and 10.1 disc from my Rebel XT with no luck. They both used installshield with a simliar file structure that wasn’t happening. I popped in the 13.0 disc that came with my Rebel XTi and it worked (kinda)! The files were all in uppercase on the CD and they used a setup.exe file backed by the actual uncompressed/encapsulated cab files.

Like you mentioned, the left screen is a little screwy, its unstable, but it does work kinda sorta. I tested out basic functionality and it all seems to work well enough. The stamp tool is gimped a little cause the ALT key doesn’t work to select the copy location. IDK… if you MUST run DPP I’d install vmware server/workstation, install XP on a VM, and use it that way. I’m not sure how performance will be over a native linux app…probably not good. Batch processing a few raw’s seemed to take much longer than my similarly spec’d out XP workstation I love the simplicity of DPP and haven’t been able to find something that just does what I need like it yet. I checked out the other apps listed here but I think they have too many bells and whistles to muck around with.

Ya know, its just like cell phones today. Sometimes you just want a phone… not a phone with a camera, games, calendars, bluetooth, sms, web access, vpn, email, ssh, voice recognition, speaker phone, color screen, mp3 player, calculator…lol… gimmie JUST a damn phone so I can make a simple phone call.

By: Pablo d'Angelo

Pablo d'Angelo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:20:34 +0000

You could also try lightzone. They offer a free as in beer beta version for linux:
http://www.lightcrafts.com/linux/index.html

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:05:06 +0000

Lightroom is cool, though it does have some quirks (I judge by 1.3.1).

I use Rawstudio for editing sessions and UFRaw for actual processing. Since a while F-Spot features rating, but RAW processing is possible via “Develop in UFRaw” extension only.

Some guy is working on a multi-image workflow app based on gqview and UFRaw right now. Will see what comes out.

There is another interesting project whose name I dare not mention yet, with Lightroom-oriented workflow in mind, but very slow progressing.

By: Roger Barnes

Roger Barnes — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:04:26 +0000

As a Linux user and photographer, I highly recommend BibblePro. I’d be curious to know your thoughts if you’ve already tried it.

http://www.bibblelabs.com

[EDIT/Disclosure: Roger is the author of ND Grad, a plug-in for BibblePro that simulates a graduated neutral density filter.]