Hi guys,

I've been doing some more digging about this issue and I think I've
figured out why the embedded JPEGs (or JPEGs in general) have settings I
can't seem to copy manually in darktable (mostly visible in white balance
& tints).

It seems (semi recent) Nikon camera's apply a 'Picture Control' to the
images that determine how the final rendered image will appear. ViewNX
(Nikon's free RAW converter) knows this & uses this to generate JPEGs that
are identical to the JPEG files generated by the camera, but software that
is unaware of these fail to copy these settings.

A similar issue exists in Lightroom
(http://photographylife.com/how-to-get-accurate-nikon-colors-in-lightroom)
and while this usually isn't really an issue (DarkTable tends to do an
excellent job at White Balance), sometimes the camera does it better than
I can.

The solution thus would be to figure out what those Picture Controls do &
how to apply these things in DarkTable.

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/microsite/picturecontrol/

Cheers


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