Thanks Pascal, I cc the list if you don't mind.

I suspect indeed that LR might have been doing something else (and might
still do) that impact the brightness and RGB values. But the base curve
in DT have a similar effect, right?

I guess it all comes from the effort to match LR and DT results, which I
am not supportive for. Though I understand that one may want to transfer
some parameters from LR to DT (tags, keywords, etc.).

Thanks for the effort, anyway. It is nice that this option LR->DT exists.

Cheers
denis


Le 11/03/2016 16:02, Pascal Obry a écrit :
> 2016-03-11 15:48 GMT+01:00 Denis Testemale <[email protected]>:
>> I did a small experiment (worth 2 cents, but still useful to convince
>> myself). I took 3 pictures 2EV apart: 200ISO / f8 / 1/10s, 200ISO / f8 /
>> 1/40s and 200ISO / f8 / 1/160s, of the same scene lighted with a
>> constant light, then for all 3 softwares:
>> - imported them in Darktable, Aftershotpro and Rawtherapee (the 3 raw
>> converters I have access to and use).
> 
> All of them on GNU/Linux. So same driver, same rendering engine....
> 
>> - deactivated all parameter (auto blabla, local contrast, highlight
>> recovery, etc.) which could modify the luminosity of pixels
>> - used only the exposure compensation with 0EV, +2EV and +4EV respectively
>> - and finally checked visually (which is subjective and prone to errors)
>> and quantitatively by measuring the RGB values with the sampling tool.
>> With the 3 softwares, the three images are identical in terms of
>> exposure/luminosity/RGB channels . I'm not talking about the noise,
>> obviously. This is logical to me (and to you also I guess :-) ) and
>> means that the 3 software define the exposure the same way. This was my
>> point in previous messages when I said that it is an 'absolute' physical
>> value. I can check, but I'm very confident that it is the same for LR.
> 
> But again this is exactly what I did with Lr when I was mapping the
> .xmp and the exposure
> was not taken into account the same way. Strange as it is, it is the
> truth. I would have loved
> avoiding all this work by just using the Lr values in dt. The same was
> true with exposure.
> 
> I was using Lr on Virtual Box on half screen and dt on the other half
> for easy comparisons.
> 
> Note that for exposure the offset is not that large, the mapping is
> defined like this:
> 
>   lr2dt_t lr2dt_exposure_table[] = { { -5, -4.5 }, { 0, 0 }, { 5, 4.5 } };
> 
> That is -5 on Lr map to -4.5 on dt. 0 is 0 and 5 is mapped to 4.5 and
> the mapping is linear.
> 
> I don't remember all the details, this is a long time ago but IIRC I
> was matching the highlights
> for the 5 vs 4.5, maybe Lr is always doing some hightligh recovery
> that dt does not.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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