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"The logic is that if you have a 12-bit image that's in scene linear, like your RAW files are [..]"

@GenaricName .. RAW files haven't been linear for a very long time. The switch to a log-scale...

@Txoni .. yes, of course, my comment was very tongue in cheek.

But as @my-2-cents demonstrated - the concept of OUTPUT scaling is not really understood. Of course the input side is the tricky part...

Oh my. It's just a matter of scaling.

In 12bit output you can pack 4096 steps of information, so without compression that's 4096 stops of dynamic range.

The interesting part is how you capture,...

Oh Yeah! That Jobo taught me more about process control than anything else could. Somewhere between 5k to 10k sheets of 4x5 in four years without a problem and results easily on par with the Pro...

@JohnBean .. the grok was towards how the color pipeline reacts to changes and pictures. And I think it fits, because we have all been trained on 0-255 color editing for decades. New paradigm, lots...

By using RT and the tools in it - demosaic, sharpness, noise, etc - you can change the look quite a lot. This look on the pixel level will determine how any upscaling will be able to work on the...

Depends. I do mostly reportage and darktable with scene-referred has been an eye-opener. And customers like the look, so there's that.

NIce summary.

But with the usual problem that the author kind of expects other software to work like the one he is proficient in. Not gonna happen. If that is your expectation, do not shop for...

The difference is .. you can't grow film on a pasture, assemble it from a scrapyard or use natural ingredients with unlimited shelf life.

Neither a horse, nor vintage car nor painting or even...

"I don't really shoot color film anymore very often, but I definitely want it to stay alive."

.. you are part of your own problem. If you want color film, then buy color film. Thousands or better...

Film would become cheap again if it was used in billions of mobile phones.

@Michiel953 .. there is a saying about austrians and germans, but it fits pretty much anywhere:

"What separates us is the common language."

And despite my criticism of some of the technical...

@nonuniform .. another oldtimer here, I have been fighting the effects - without having a name for it - since 1997 when I started editing and master printing digital images. darktables scene...

For the naysayers I'll leave this link here. Watch and learn something that should have been fixed decades ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQMKvpDTYU

In case the link does not work in the...

Foskito, you don't even have to adjust your screen and it has nothing to do with calibration. It is how the software renders the colors.

Currently and to my knowledge only darktable in...

I don't see great colors.

All I see is the default bad color science resulting in hue-shifts when colors get brighter. Classic example: skies turn cyan instead of becoming a lighter blue. Once you...

my preferred transport for 135 was two cans taped together back to back. Add some extra electrical tape to the caps and mark with an edding with whatever markings were required. write the crucial...

135 cartridges are light tight. Unless you squeeze them excessively you are good. Back then, when digital meant counting with your digits, shot film survived car dashboards for days. Without an...