January 9, 2005

• OpenAperture, a blog by a photographer using open source software.

  I've always wondered about the IPTC standard(s). That page is at controlledvocabulary.com, and the same guy who does that has some excellent (looking) software to manage IPTC metadata and so forth.

  The friendly-sounding Image Numbering, Filing, and Retrieval

  Dry Creek Photo has a bunch of good stuff about color management. Learn why you should calibrate your monitor.

  Rawformat is a newsblog about so-called digital negatives.

  Adobe has proposed a standardized RAW file format called DNG that has been widely accepted. No free Photoshop plugins for it, though. Open standard: good. Non-free software: bad. Helas.

  Pentax' Photo Laboratory software sucks, by the way. It's slow and unreliable. Raw Developer looks like a good alternative, but I'm too busy with other things to give it any real attention.

  Raw Developer swipes a lot of code from dcraw, which is an amazing piece of software.

  Also: Photographyblog.

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