2013/2/22 johannes hanika <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>

is it broken ? feels like it... playing with the TO's raw file.

>> 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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