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This weekends Photowalk remembered me on something I found some time ago somewhere on the web...

With the gazillion of pictures taken by everybody, how do you find the one you want? Microsoft has done some nice way of presenting pictures in a 3d reconstruction based on the pictures themselves. A technology preview (which only works on windows with IE probably) can be found here...

As Beteigeuze asked, here is my script I used for RAW processing (right now I convert the RAWs manually in f-spot with ufraw)

#!/bin/bash
# Converts all Raw-Files in a dir to jpeg with dcraw
# needs ExifTool available from www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool

set -e
ext=.CRW

for i in *$ext; do
# Get basename of file for easier treatment
bn=`basename $i $ext` ;
#
# Convert from RAW
#
# Check if a jpg already exists
if [ -f ${bn}.jpg ]; then
    echo "File $bn already converted"
else
    echo "Converting File $bn"

## Method 1: just use dcraw
    # converts directly to jpg without any treatment
    #   dcraw -a -c $i | ppmtojpeg > ${bn}.jpg;

## Method 2:
    # This should do some basic image treatment:
      # dcraw -a -4 $i ;
      # convert -normalize -gamma 1.8 ${bn}.ppm ${bn}_dcraw4_normalized.jpg ;
      # rm $bn.ppm;

## Method 3: 
    # Including an ICC profile, this gives the best results for my screen
      dcraw -4 -c -w -m $i | pnmnorm -bpercent 0.1 -wpercent 0.1 -brightmax \
        | pnmtotiff -truecolor >temp.tif;
     tifficc -w -i ~nils/eos10d-linear-8apr2004.icc temp.tif ${bn}.tif;
     convert -quality 90 ${bn}.tif ${bn}.jpg ;
      rm $bn.tif ;
      rm temp.tif;
#
# Copy and set EXIF stuff
#
    ~/Image-ExifTool-6.81/exiftool -TagsFromFile $i ${bn}.jpg;
    ~/Image-ExifTool-6.81/exiftool -Author="Nils Pickert" -OwnerName="Nils Pickert" -UserComment="(c) Nils Pickert" $bn.jpg;
    rm $bn.jpg_original;
#
# rotate according to EXIF
# this is only necessary for method 1 and 2, not for 3
    #  exiftran -i -a ${bn}_dcraw_only.jpg;
fi
done