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[Wesley Harp <wesj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would suspect this is a common thing with the REBEL line of cameras. In
the USA they're generally referred to by the letters (XSi) and overseas I
think as the model number (450D).

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wesley Harp wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, so having read that, this seems like an oversight of that method. I
>> have a Canon XSi (450D). The long name from the metadata is Canon EOS
>> DIGITAL REBEL XSi. It has no numberic characters in the name, thus it
>> doesn't have a "short name". That's where my confusion is coming from.
>>
>>
> You have therefore identified a bug :) I didn't think through carefully
> enough the variety of camera names. There are two ways to deal with this
> problem. One is the remapping idea, which is unfortunately not trivial to
> code. The other is to make the algorithm more clever, in much the same way I
> look out for the occurrence of "Mark" in model names.   For now, I'm very
> much inclined to do the latter. What are some other examples of model names
> that have no numbers?
>
> I have made a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rapid/+bug/479424
>
> Thanks
>
> Damon
>
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