Hi to Everyone, My camera - a Canon eos 600D, produces JPG files as well as CR2 (Canon raw files). Using Darktable, I expect to obtain from the Canon raw files, better JPGs than those produced by the camera and, most of all, in modifying, rotating, sampling, cutting etc... from CR2s, I expect not to loose quality at each re Saving as this happens with lossy jpeg files.
Problem is... those jpg files that I obtain from an export process in Darktable, are more than TWICE AS BIG as those delivered by my Canon Camera ! So far I have been unable to understand why, since both use jpeg quality 98. These images don't show much difference when analysing them using ImageMagick's 'identify -verbose'. Both are jpeg quality 98. Both have 18 MegaPixels, both are 8 bit. the only differences that I can see, are as follows : 'Identify' says that Darktable jpg is 300 x 300 dpi with a print size of 11.54 x 17.3267, while the Canon JPG shows 72 x72 dpi with a print size of 72 x 48... Am I right to consider that it comes to the same result in the end ? It simply looks like if the Canon jpg had gone through a resampling process and, to my opinion (that of a newbee..) it should not change anything... In the end, when displaying each image, I don't see much difference in that matter, and print sizes appear to be the same once 'Gimp' has done its job Page geometries are the same or just about, except that one image has been turned, therefore width and length are reverse. jpg colorspace = 2 for both images ==> jpeg sampling factors : 1x1, 1x1, 1x1 for the Darktable jpg... and, surprisingly, 2x1, 1x1, 1x1 for the Canon jpg... ??? What is this sampling factor ? What are those three pairs of values ? Could this explain the difference in filesizes from Darktable generated and Camera generated JPGs ? What difference does it make in image quality ? How to change these sampling factors in the Darktable export process ? Thanks in advance for any infos and tricks. Bernard ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
