On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Julian J. M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hightlight reconstruction in darktable seems to just clip the values,

not true.

> so
> that the color turns white (or gray if you keep lowering it)... But it
> looses much information that's there. Usually it's the green channel what
> gets overexposed, but knowing the aproximated tone of the area, using the
> red and blue channels, it should be possible to reconstruct much of the
> missing information.
>
> That's what Rawtherapee seems to have implemented:
> http://code.google.com/p/rawtherapee/issues/detail?id=780
> There's a patch there... not sure how hard would it be to port it to
> darktable.
>
> Julian.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:39 PM, johannes hanika <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> yes, what simon said. there are two things i would try, one is
>> exposure, the other is adjust the basecurve to something a little
>> lower in the bright regions at least (or try the `dark contrast' one
>> and pull down the right end some more). you first need to get the
>> highlights down < 1.0 before you can actually see the effect of
>> reconstruction.
>>
>> -jo
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Simon Spannagel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Hans Petter,
>> >
>> > have you tried to adjust the exposure in darktable? To me it looks a bit
>> > like the details should be there in general but the areas are still
>> > overexposed since both dt pictures are much brighter in general.
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 21.02.2013 23:29, schrieb Hans Petter Birkeland:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> I'm testing out Darktable and Rawtherapee at the moment to see which
>> >> one
>> >> of them I will use in the future. I must say that Darktable wins in
>> >> every respect but one: Highlight reconstruction. I find that
>> >> Rawtherapee
>> >> is capble of recovering much more detail from overexposed highlights.
>> >>
>> >> Here are some examples:
>> >> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s15m6zokz2ksugb/UGt6o64Lj9
>> >>
>> >> The method I used in Darktable was Reconstruct in LCh, and in
>> >> Rawtherapee I used Color Propagation.
>> >>
>> >> Any idea why Darktable can't find what is actually there? The Color
>> >> Propagation is quite slow on my ancient system, but the result is so
>> >> much better. Any chance that Darktable will do this in the future?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> My system:
>> >> Linux Mint 13, 32 bit
>> >> Darktable 1.1.3
>> >> Rawtherapee 3.0.0.6
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Hans Petter Birkeland
>> >>
>> >>
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