Hi, I have a Pentax K-30.
I've noticed that for a lot of photos I take, the camera JPEG is considerably, well, brighter than what Darktable shows initially when I load the DNG file (base curve is set to Pentax). I've uploaded sample files from http://www.nawaz.org/media/images/darktable/photos.zip You can see some examples here: Darktable output: http://www.nawaz.org/media/images/darktable/bikeride-7026.jpg Camera JPEG: http://www.nawaz.org/media/images/darktable/bikeride-7026-camerajpeg.JPG Now for full disclaimer, on my camera I did set the contrast and saturation to the lowest setting, so that will affect the JPEGs (and not the DNGs, which is a good thing). However, I still think Darktable's base curve is a bit too dark... It takes me a lot of effort to get something decent out of these dark photos, and I don't think I do a good job (Google Plus's automatic algorithm did much better...). I know I can make my own base profile, but I feel I'd be shooting a little in the dark. Anyway, I wanted some feedback about this. Could it be that the default profile in Darktable needs improving? Does anyone else have a better base profile I could use? (Note, I do NOT want low contrast and low saturation - I set those in the camera just to get a more accurate histogram when previewing so that I know I'm not losing data to highlights, etc). Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
