[Digikam-users] 16bit editiing and auto-whitebalance

[Benjamin Schindler]

Hi

I just bought a Nikon D60 and started to experiment with Raw photos, so 
I have two questions/suggestions (I'm on a gentoo box using latest beta):

- Why is 16bit dcraw decoding not enabled by default? 16bit is one of 
the major reasons to use raw, so I would expect to have 16bit unless 
instructed otherwise
- I've created just very few raw photos, but one thing struck me: Take 
the following raw: http://n.ethz.ch/~bschindl/fotos/DSC_0033.NEF. The 
embedded jpeg (which I assume is the one visible in the album view) 
looks nicely vivid. But when opening the image, it looks _very_ bad. I 
know cameras apply their set of improvements, but I have left the camera 
with the default settings, so it shouldn't be this bad. Why is this so?
I know I can just do some color corrections to get this, but it would be 
great if this would be the starting point for editing!

On another note - I read the comments on the raw workflow on dot.kde.org 
which were posted on the digikam lookahead. I kinda have to agree - a 
workflow as used in rawstudio for example would be extremely nice.

Cheers!
Benjamin