Hi Roman, thanks for your reply.
Was there some changes that caused this behavior. I remember older version
of DT correctly displaying K temperature. Or am i wrong?
Will your recent changes make it to a stable point release or only when DT
1.8 (or 2.0) is released?
Thanks again.
Gonçalo Marrafa
On 13 February 2015 at 12:40, Roman Lebedev <lebedev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Hi.
>
>
>> I just noticed in the white balance module that the values for color
>> temperature are way off. If i choose direct sunlight i get 8794K instead of
>> 5500K. If i choose incandescent i get 4729K instead of 3200K. The scale
>> goes from 2000K to 23000K.
>> Although the values are wrong the photos look OK. Choosing daylight
>> balance on a daylight photo produces realistic colors and results.
>>
> The process which is used to convert RGB multipliers to Kelvin is rather
> arbitrary (there isn't a single correct way to do it).
>
>
>> Is this a feature? If so what's the rationale behind it? If not what's
>> wrong with DT?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> Yes, that is not a bug, that is expected to happen.
>
> Though, actually, i have worked on this recently and i have achieved
> significant improvements to the Kelvin temperature display:
> https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/859
>
> See also: http://www.darktable.org/redmine/issues/9362
>
>
>> Gonçalo Marrafa
>
> Roman.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Gonçalo Marrafa <
> goncalo.marr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I just noticed in the white balance module that the values for color
>> temperature are way off. If i choose direct sunlight i get 8794K instead of
>> 5500K. If i choose incandescent i get 4729K instead of 3200K. The scale
>> goes from 2000K to 23000K.
>>
>> Although the values are wrong the photos look OK. Choosing daylight
>> balance on a daylight photo produces realistic colors and results.
>>
>> Is this a feature? If so what's the rationale behind it? If not what's
>> wrong with DT?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> Gonçalo Marrafa
>>
>>
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