Perhaps making a custom camera input profile, as detailed at http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/camera-profile-make-target-shot.html is worth pursuing?
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 13:18 Saint Germain <saint...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:41:36 +0200, Matthieu Moy > <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote : > > > Saint Germain <saint...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Please see the thread about Nikon and Darktable there: > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/darktable-user@lists.darktable.org/msg00805.html > > > > Thanks, I missed this thread indeed. > > > > > I managed to get quite good result with my D7200 with the Nikon > > > input color profile for D7100 given in this thread. > > > > That's surprising: on some images the D7100 color profile gives good > > results at least color-wise, but in many cases it also flattens > > completely the contrast. I could get a close-to-camera JPEG result by > > drawing a slightly S-shape base curve manually for one picture, but > > then it's completely wrong on another one. So, I still don't have a > > "one fits all" receipe :-(. > > Indeed I am also looking for the single recipe which will allow me to > have a defaut satisfying behavior. > So far I can say that the JPEG given by Nikon gives a satisfying result > (far from perfect but acceptable). With Darktable and the different > presets I have tried, I always have to modify something manually, > which is taking me too much time. > > I have to emphasize again, that I am NOT especially trying to duplicate > Nikon JPEG. It's just that it gives an acceptable result and it serves > as a point of reference (especially for color tone) in order to achieve > at least a similar result with Darktable (because I always have a > blueish/greenish tint so far). > > With the trick to use the .icm profile generated by ViewNX 2/Capture > NX-D, I agree that the result is a bit "flat" (but with almost correct > colors). I can of course modify it, but this modification cannot be > used on another pictures (same problem as you). > > Can I offer to try to work on the same set of pictures ? > I already uploaded an example here (see last comment) : > https://redmine.darktable.org/issues/11053#note-11 > Perhaps can you also upload somewhere the pictures which are difficult > to process by Darktable ? > > > > > > Can you generate and upload a .dtstyle that give you good result ? > > > > Attached is an XMP file. > > > > > > This style gives me a rather incorrect result in the example I have > provided. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
