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

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/4/15, Benjamin Schindler <bschindler at student.ethz.ch>:
> 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

8 bits by default because there is no auto-gamma with 16 bits color
depth with digiKam <= 0.9.3

>  - 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!

Done in 0.9.4. auto-gamma is implemented with 16 bits color depth

Gilles Caulier