Damon Lynch

That reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw on the back of a beat up old van: "don't laugh, your daughter might be in here". All your points are excellent, thank you. I tried to get the FOSS ...

I don't know how often I have to say this — it's not about a single individual's preferences. Not yours. Not mine. It never has been. It never will be. It's about getting things done so that ...

No idea sorry. You'd need to ask them.

I've spent literally years of my life working on free and open source photography software. Of doing everything required — user support, the website, documentation, writing the code, responding to ...

In a nutshell, the IPTC standard defines what is stored. The XMP standard defines how it stored. IPTC is very much alive and evolving.

Wait, what? You've got this back to front. It's not about suiting me or you. Standards are about the entire photographic industry, from hardware to desktop software to the cloud. The photography ...

That's one interpretation — if you think workflow interoperability is optional and vendor lock-in is fine. That's not why I got into free software myself.

A logical point. Of course, it's darktable and Corel Aftershot in one corner, and pretty much everybody else who works with photography metadata in the other.

Have you seen the options panel for metadata handling in digiKam, who have historically had a flexible approach to metadata standards adherence? It's not exactly a model of simplicity. In fact ...

Submitting a patch or pull request would be a complete waste of time. It would be rejected. I respectfully engaged the darktable developer responsible years ago. He made it abundantly clear he ...

I assume that means you never create or use IPTC metadata: https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/iptc-standard/ The magic of IPTC metadata is why Google image search results can now ...

Once his metadata is in darktable, it's stuck there until he renames all his XMP files to meet the XMP standard. And what other issues he might run into at that point are unknown. I imagine very ...

I'm a free software developer myself. My program is used by thousands of photographers. The program is only possible because of photography industry standards like EXIF. If the standard didn't ...

darktable will read XMP sidecar files e.g. IMG1234.XMP darktable violates the XMP standard and writes XMP its sidecar files like this: IMG1234.CR2.XMP If you want any other application to your ...

The property of being marked — Mark II, Mark III etc. — has been studied by linguists for more than a century. It is pervasive in natural language use. We all use it all the time even if we never...

But the difference with the traditional model DxO is using is that you can choose not to upgrade, and be none the worse off. You still have exactly the software you paid for. For example, I didn't...

Go to the store, pause for some seconds, and a pop-up will appear that will give you a strictly time-limited code that brings the price down to $55.30, which is less than the $59.95 promo...

It's just over $55 when taking advantage of their discount code. Which is reasonable, I think.