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Official and localized models #20
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I'd take a PR but to do the opposite. Keep what's already there the same and add a
canonical_makeandcanonical_model. I think that's how I did it in rawspeed for the same reasons. For all user-visible purposes you want the actual name of the camera, that's what the user knows it by. It's only for software purposes that you want a single canonical name as you don't care about Canon's (and a few others) crazy marketing setups.
When an image file contains an alias of the camera model, rather than the official camera model, there is no way to relate back to the official model.
For example, with a T3i, I would expect to get back the official model of
Canon EOS 600D(fromdata/cameras/canon/600d.toml) when callingcamera.model. However, instead I get back the localized modelCanon EOS REBEL T3i.This can introduce difficulties when you want to branch behaviour based on the camera model as each localized case must be handled, rather than a single official model case.
Proposal would be to modify
RawImage.{model, clean_model}to return the official model name, and add two new propertiesRawImage.{localized_model, clean_localized_model}that return the localized model name.