[darktable-user] "Failed to read camera white balance information"

2018-08-11 Thread Mike Strock
I have a set of files I shot with a Nikon D3400. I was bringing them into Lightable today, and when double clicking on an image to bring it up, i get the message that says 'Failed to read camera white balance information.' I've not seen this before, but admittedly since I switched back to

Re: [darktable-user] "Failed to read camera white balance information"

2018-08-11 Thread Mike Strock
Answering part of mine own question. Converting to DNG solves the problem but I don't know what I'm losing converting to DNG. Mike. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 16:49, Mike Strock wrote: > I have a set of files I shot with a Nikon D3400. I was bringing them into >

[darktable-user] Philosophical question

2018-08-11 Thread Mike Strock
What do I lose converting from CR2 RAW files to DNG? I always shoot raw but is there a benefit or a degradation to converting to DNG for future proofing my images? If this is off topic I apologize. Mike. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

Aw: Re: [darktable-user] "Failed to read camera white balance information"

2018-08-11 Thread Michael Fritze
Hi Mike,   this is a known issue. Bug is in rawspeed.   E.g.: https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/issues/129   BR, Micha.   Gesendet: Sonntag, 12. August 2018 um 02:58 Uhr Von: "Mike Strock" An: "darktable-user@lists.darktable.org" Betreff: Re: [darktable-user] "Failed to read

Re: [darktable-user] Philosophical question

2018-08-11 Thread Timur Davletshin
Personally, I'm OK with converted CR2 → DNG, it works fine from my experience. But I have problems with NEF → DNG, there is some problem with maker notes interpretation in exiv2 (used by dt) which leads to problems in lens detection (hence no automatic lens correction). I know that some developers

Re: [darktable-user] Philosophical question

2018-08-11 Thread I. Ivanov
What do I lose converting from CR2 RAW files to DNG? I always shoot raw but is there a benefit or a degradation to converting to DNG for future proofing my images? What I recall reading on the list is generally against conversion to DNG. My understanding is that a) the format is