On jeudi 5 novembre 2020 09:15:37 CET Archie Macintosh wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 06:44, Martin Straeten <[email protected]> > wrote: <snip> > > > Best solution to get nikon colors is using the software provided by nikon > > Indeed. Isn’t that the digital equivalent of choosing to use > Kodachrome — the sort of choice we all made in the film days when > there was no equivalent to what we now call ‘RAW’.
But always work on a *copy* of the original raw file. We've seen a few problems with esp. nikon raw files (.NEF) that were attributed to Nikon's software modifying the NEF files in a way that made them unreadable for most other software. Not a pleasant surprise if it hits you and you do not have a backup. And this can happen with any software that writes to raw files! >Don’t be satisfied with a look you don’t like even after hours of >work, just because of some spurious ‘moral’ argument that ‘RAW is >best’. If you like the look of the camera jpegs, why even bother with raw development? If it's to reproduce the in-camera look, you're wasting your time... Raw development is good if you do *not* like the look your camera produces, or when you have images the camera software can't handle (images with high dynamic range come to mind, or images with a lot of "led blue", like some theatre settings...). But raw development has to be learned... Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
