On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Robert William Hutton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/11/16 09:58, Jimmy Gowrisanker wrote:
>>
>> Based on the instructions
>> here
>> http://www.darktable.org/2012/10/whats-involved-with-adding-support-for-new-cameras/
>> , I took 9
>> shots (auto0:Keep white-reduce warm colours, auto1:normal, auto1: keep
>> warm colours, Incan, FL,
>> Sunlight, flash, cloudy and shade). What do I do now? I seem to be lost !
>
>
> There's a few different scripts floating around to help you extract the
> white balance info from your images.  Here's what I do:
>
> Download latest exiftool from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
> the first link will do. I find the version in Ubuntu is too old.
>
> sudo apt-get install git ruby ruby-nokogiri
> mkdir wd && cd wd
> tar xvzf ~/Downloads/Image-ExifTool-10.36.tar.gz  # this is the exiftool
> download
> export PATH=$PATH:~/wd/Image-ExifTool-10.36
> git clone https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git
> cd <directory with your white balance images>
> rm -rf ~/white_balance.txt
> for file in *; do ~/wd/darktable/tools/extract_wb "$file" >>
> ~/white_balance.txt ; echo >> ~/white_balance.txt ; done
>
> Now, have a look in the ~/white_balance.txt file.  You will see the
> extracted white balance information for each image that you made.  For me, I
> got more than one line per image, so I had to go through and select the one
> that was the setting that I set the camera to.  Delete the other lines so
> you end up with one line per image.
>
> Add a comment to the top of your file with camera name and version like
> this:
>
>   /* Fujifilm X-T10 Firmware Version 1.21 */
>
> Now, you can either just post this info into a redmine issue:
>
> https://redmine.darktable.org/projects/darktable
>
> Or you can test them out first by copy/pasting them into the source code of
> darktable and building and installing to test.  If you're running darktable
> 2.0.x, the instructions are here:
>
> https://redmine.darktable.org/projects/darktable/wiki/Building_darktable_20
>
> Version 2.2 rc is here:
>
> https://redmine.darktable.org/projects/darktable/wiki/Building_darktable_22
>
> After you check out the tag for the version you want to build, you need to
> copy your new white balance values into this file:
>
> ~/wd/darktable/src/external/wb_presets.c
>
> Then you build and install, and run your newly installed darktable by doing:
>
> /opt/darktable/bin/darktable
>
> Make sure you back up your database before running your modified darktable
> version though!
>
> cd ~/.config
> cp -a ./darktable ./darktable.bak
>
>
> Hope that helps!  Also, you might want to consider shooting additional
> images with the white balance fine-tune settings on your camera (this is
> typically 19 images per white balance preset, though). This enables the fine
> tune slider in the white balance module of darktable which I find really
> useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
Rob, you have rather outdated information :)
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/master/tools/extract_wb
is the tool.

Roman.

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