* Chas G <cgoodwinart...@gmail.com> [01-11-22 10:16]: > In a current thread, someone asked, "If you are more satisfied with the > in-camera jpg, why are you bothering with dt and why are you shooting raw?" > > I know that a raw file can offer more data, and that darktable is thought > of mainly as a raw converter. My take is that darktable can - and should - > be thought of as an image editor that happens to be able to work with raw > files. > > The large majority of images I use darktable on are jpgs from a cell phone. > I do have a Nikon DSLR and and can shoot raw, but I frequently do not have > the big camera with me. > > Top line cell phones produce shockingly good images nowadays - at least > when the lack of a short lens or a long lens is not a problem. The old > maxim that the best camera you have for a particular situation is the one > you happen to have with you is still true. I have the cell phone with me > more than I have a professional camera. > > If I never shot another raw again in my life, that would not change my view > of darktable as the first choice in image editors. The speed, power, and > fluidity of work via darktable appear unmatched. > > I'm not picking on the comment or the commenter. Far from it. It just > happens to give me the chance to address a notion that deserves a wider > audience, that darktable, as an editing tool, is bigger and more powerful > than is generally advertised. Darktable is the best editor out there. Not > just for raw files.
I made that comment and on further consideration, it was un-called for. dt is excellent in processing images, raw and otherwise. I perhaps was becomeing somewhat frustrated trying to explain that the jpg images out of camera were processed in-camera whereas the raw was not and felt the OP believed otherwise. many do not understand the out-of-camera jpg's are not expected to represent how the unprocessed raw appears. tks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
