Hello,
For the third time I am making an attempt to convert to darktable........
I am a longtime Capture One user (since version 5) and have tens of thousands of images processed in CO.
Reprocessing them in darktable is not an option obviously.
Both darktable and Capture One are excellent Raw Processors but both are lousy Catalogs (for my needs).
I do not want to go into a catalog discussion in this email. I will probably come back to that seperately.
I now have built my own image catalog that can take processed images from either darktable or CO and handles them equally.
My catalog provides a unified view with all the necessary metadata for filtering, wherever the image comes from.
So that is why I would now like to switch to darktable. I am a longtime Unix user and prefer Linux over Windows. Capture One is the only reason I still have Windows.
If Capture One would move to Linux, I would stay with them, but they are not interested in Linux (I have been asking for years).
So now that I am (almost) ready to switch, I am still encountering some problems. I would like to ask how other users approach this problem:
When I come back from a trip I usually have a thousand or more pictures.
I process them by subject/location/date usually in batches of 200-300.
In Capture One I import them and run them though an Auto Adjust process that adjusts Exposure, Levels and HDR, as a first pass before selecting images for further processing.
(For one of my cameras I also run auto whitebalance).
CO does a good job in Auto Adjust. But I can find no similar functionality in darktable.
As far as I can see every image needs to be adjusted (or at least checked) individually.
For me the most important modules would be Exposure and Levels.
These tools have auto functionality which is OK when used on each image directly, but when using it in a style, it does not do an auto adjust at all.
It seems to copy the adjustments applied from when the style was created. Very counter-intuitive !!
My question: how do other users apply basic corrections when importing large number of images ??
Regards, Jozef Dassen
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