the whitepoint in cameras.xml for this camera is overly conservative
and should be lowered quite a bit. if i set it manually to 0.796 in
the highlight reconstruction module, i get:

http://picpaste.com/img_0001-9Nd40hrz.jpg
http://picpaste.com/img_0002-hqTB2bvP.jpg

(full processing details in the xmp in the jpg)

j.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Henrik Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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