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

[Benjamin Schindler]

Hi

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. I was testing this on 0.9.4-beta3...

Cheers
Benjamin

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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
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