[Digikam-users] 16-bit raw color management woes with Canon 30D

[Carla Schroder]

Raw color input profiles are driving me batty! In fact none of the profile 
settings do anything. I have a Canon EOS 30D set to AdobeRGB. I have all of 
the 6112 input profiles, which came with the camera, and are also available 
here:
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ICCPROFILES/CameraProfiles/CANON/Canon 30D/

This page tells which input profiles to match to the correct camera model:
http://www.maashoek.nl/color_profiles.html

But none of them work in Digikam. They make zero difference- 16-bit RAW images 
are very dark, as they are supposed to be with no color management, and 
applying the 6112 profiles does not change anything. So I tried some of the 
files from
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ICCPROFILES/CameraProfiles/LZ.2.0/

and these actually lighten the images a little bit, but they're still very 
dark. There aren't any specifically for the 30D, and I haven't found any 
elsewhere.

Has anyone been successful in using the 6112 input profiles? I love Digikam- 
it's a great application that outperforms the Canon bundled software, and I 
hate using Windows anyway. Is there some other workaround? Should I just cuss 
Canon and take small comfort from that? :)

Kubuntu Feisty
Digikam version 0.9.1
RAW decoding settings:
16 bits
Use camera white balance
Bilinear interpolation

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