Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Jeffery Small
Gary Aitken and Alexander Rabtchevich suggest that Darktable (and possibly Shotwell) are applying corrections that improve the display of the raw image. This is true, but in Darktable you can select the 0 - original image without the sharpening and curve correction and the image is still very

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Jeffery Small
Alexander Rabtchevich alexander.v.rabtchev...@gmx.net writes: When you look at an imported image in darktable without applying any corrections, the program shows you the embedded preview, which was made by the camera itself with all the corrections it (the camera) would made with the original

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Partha Bagchi
Can you provide an example image to confirm this? Thanks, Partha On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com wrote: Alexander Rabtchevich alexander.v.rabtchev...@gmx.net writes: When you look at an imported image in darktable without applying any corrections, the program

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Jeffery Small
Partha Bagchi parth...@gmail.com writes: Can you provide an example image to confirm this? Sure. Let's use the clouds photo since it is a more modern Sony format and pretty dramatically shows the loss of information. Point your browser here:

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com [04-05-14 16:15]: Partha Bagchi parth...@gmail.com writes: Can you provide an example image to confirm this? Sure. Let's use the clouds photo since it is a more modern Sony format and pretty dramatically shows the loss of information. Point your browser

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Partha Bagchi
Can you also put the jpg you shot since that tells me what you are expecting to see? As an aside you may want to visit Dave Coffin's page and read the FAQ especially about gamma and linearity. Thanks, Partha On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com wrote: Partha Bagchi

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Gary Aitken
Can you provide an example image to confirm this? Sure. Let's use the clouds photo since it is a more modern Sony format and pretty dramatically shows the loss of information. Point your browser here: http://smallthoughts.com/photos/misc/GIMP/clouds.arw Looks like a normal image when

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Jeffery Small
Partha Bagchi parth...@gmail.com writes: Can you also put the jpg you shot since that tells me what you are expecting to see? As an aside you may want to visit Dave Coffin's page and read the FAQ especially about gamma and linearity. The jpg images look very much like what you see in the

[Gimp-user] recording changes

2014-04-05 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm frustrated by large storage requirements for xcf files resulting from processing many jpg image files. The processing is typically pretty simple, crop, curves, with no touch up. I don't mind the xcf size for images which required a lot of detail work, but it's crazy for the majority of them.

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem importing raw Minolta and Sony files

2014-04-05 Thread Partha Bagchi
I admit I missed your previous image and so apologies I don't know what Darktable shows. When I processed in UFRaw (version 0.20, my build and part of my Gimp build for Windows 64-bit), It looks fine. I set the exposure to -1.48, White-balance to Daylight. If I play a little more with the

Re: [Gimp-user] recording changes

2014-04-05 Thread scl
On 06.04.2014 at 04:52 A.M Gary Aitken wrote I'm frustrated by large storage requirements for xcf files resulting from processing many jpg image files. [...] Are there any plugins, or is any work being done / planned, on some means to save (even a selected set of) operations so the result can