[Digikam-users] Fujifilm RAW format: Pallid colours after converting

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 11 November 2007 schrieb Timo Steuerwald:
> Hi all,
>
> first of all: Nice application!
>
> Now my question: The Fujifilm RAW files (*.RAF) will be displayed right
> in the GUI,
> but if I convert the files via the kipi plugin, the resulting image has
> not as much saturation as the source file.
> Please take a look at the this screenshot:
> http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3830/digikambug2xa8.png
> The left one is the thumbnail of the raw file, the right one is the
> thumbnail of the converted jpeg file.
> I use the default settings of the RAW export dialog, but also if I
> modify some of the settings it doesn't change anything.
> Currently I use Ubuntu 7.04, DigiKam 0.92 final from Achim Bohnets
> repository (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/feisty).
> I have also tried it in Ubuntu 7.10 with the DigiKam 0.9.2 packages of
> the distribution itself, but also here appears the same problem.
> How can I fix this?
>
>
> Cheers
> Timo
>
This is normal!
In a RAW workflow you have to specify a icc profile for conversion. For every 
camera sensor one has a number of profiles optimised for different purposes 
as landscape photography or portraits. The jpg file (and the embedded RAW 
thumbnail) are camera-converted with some average profile. So, you have to 
adjust your workflow and profiles to your purpose. RAW shooting is 
complex )-:, but when you master it, you'll not let go of it anymore.
Documentation can be read on line : http://www.digikam.org/?q=docs

Hope this helps a bit 
Gerhard

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