<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/5/6, Heiner Lamprecht <<a href="mailto:heiner@heiner-lamprecht.net">heiner@heiner-lamprecht.net</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sonntag, 6. Mai 2007, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>> I suspect a cache management problem in your computer. try to<br>> change this setting and restart digiKam just after and try agin<br>> to load the image.<br>>
<br>> In the Color sidebar, under the histogram, you have the color<br>> depth indication<br><br>When I open the raw image in image editor, it is displayed as 16bit,<br>but very very dark. When I choose "Raw Image Converter", it always
<br>converts to 8bit, regardless what I have configured in the<br>settings, and how often I have restarted digikam after changing the<br>settings.</blockquote><div><br>Ah ok, i understand now...<br><br>RAW converter is a kipi-plugin witch only support 8 bits color depth. 16 bits color depth with RAW file require Color management to run properly. In 8 bits an auto-gamma correction is done by dcraw, not in 16 bits (the image is converter in linear mode).
<br><br>This is why the image is dark in 16 bits mode. You must use a color profile adapted for you camera to import properlly the RAW pictures with dcraw.<br><br>Look into Nicolas Vilard blogs entries for more details :<br>
<br><a href="http://linux.vilars.com/dotclear/index.php?2007/01/03/6-color-management-workflow-using-digikam">http://linux.vilars.com/dotclear/index.php?2007/01/03/6-color-management-workflow-using-digikam</a><br><a href="http://linux.vilars.com/dotclear/index.php?2007/01/08/8-io-files-settings-advanced-options-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-pictures">
http://linux.vilars.com/dotclear/index.php?2007/01/08/8-io-files-settings-advanced-options-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-pictures</a><br><br>Gilles<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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