Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-12 Thread Bill Wohler
I have a style for the lens in my RAW shots and have a style to get to a starting point that I apply to both my RAW shots and JPGs shot from my phone. DT works fine for both! Chas G wrote: > In a current thread, someone asked, "If you are more satisfied with the > in-camera jpg, why are you >

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Niranjan Rao
On 1/11/22 7:13 AM, Chas G wrote: In a current thread, someone asked, "If you are more satisfied with the in-camera jpg, why are you bothering with dt and why are you shooting raw?" I know that a raw file can offer more data, and that darktable is thought of mainly as a raw converter. My

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Bernhard
Terry Pinfold schrieb am 11.01.22 um 23:21: It is really interesting when you have a class of twelve students and you end up with twelve different interpretations of the same image file. yes - that's also what I am experiencing over there:

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Terry Pinfold
I would just like to add to the comment about mobile phones. When I grew up my grandparents had Box Brownie cameras, and many of my generation had Kodak style instamatic cameras that took 110 or 126 film cartridges. These cameras captured our lives growing up. 35 mm cameras were the realm of

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Terry Pinfold
Hi Patrick, Thanks for this post. One of the recurring problems or questions that appear here and elsewhere is that the RAW file processed by various programs, including but not limited to DT, do not match the out of camera JPG. The camera's JPG is the manufacturer's attempt at

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chas G [01-11-22 11:59]: > "I made that comment and on further consideration, it was un-called for. dt > is excellent in processing images, raw and otherwise. I perhaps was > becomeing somewhat frustrated trying to explain that the jpg images out of > camera were processed in-camera whereas

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Chas G
"I made that comment and on further consideration, it was un-called for. dt is excellent in processing images, raw and otherwise. I perhaps was becomeing somewhat frustrated trying to explain that the jpg images out of camera were processed in-camera whereas the raw was not and felt the OP

Re: [darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chas G [01-11-22 10:16]: > In a current thread, someone asked, "If you are more satisfied with the > in-camera jpg, why are you bothering with dt and why are you shooting raw?" > > I know that a raw file can offer more data, and that darktable is thought > of mainly as a raw converter. My take

[darktable-user] Raw only?

2022-01-11 Thread Chas G
In a current thread, someone asked, "If you are more satisfied with the in-camera jpg, why are you bothering with dt and why are you shooting raw?" I know that a raw file can offer more data, and that darktable is thought of mainly as a raw converter. My take is that darktable can - and should -