Bruce, thanks for all the great videos. I was working on a shot of a dragonfly recently and was surprised to find the JPEG (Sony A7 IV) appeared sharper than my edited RAW file (note- I did crop the shot significantly). I had included darktable sharpen in my edits, so I figured Sony's in-camera editing "secret sauce" is why. I guess my point is I was surprised that the JPEG appeared sharper than I could craft with darktable...in this case.
I look forward to your next video on a noob's guide to working with raw files. I've always shot in raw, but struggle to get any of them processed because I don't understand what I'm doing or how to make it look good.
I don't think there's a RAW development engine out there that will "match" your camera's jpegs. The manufacturers all have their 'secret sauce' which is baked into the camera's image processor chip, so the only thing any software developer can do is to try and emulate that look, but it's never going to be perfect match.
Great series Bruce. Thanks for posting. Any chance of putting together a Darktable process flow for images taken using a Hoya R72 filter on a non-converted camera?
@@audio2u My fault Bruce. I could have worded my comment better. My request is for a process to handle and enhance raw infrared images in Darktable. For those of us unwilling to have the ir blocking filter removed from our cameras, the budget alternative is to use a 720nm filter (such as the Hoya R72). The results are still quite dramatic, but either way, require some skill in manipulating in post. Hopefully, this will give a better idea: th-cam.com/video/26-WC2UqDe4/w-d-xo.html .
I have read that common cell phones are able to take photos in raw with appropriate additional software. Is this true? I've tried to research this and not using the right terms I guess. Any thoughts?
I am using the free app Manual Camera DSLR Pro. You can select between JPG and RAW. Calibration with a color checker and darktable is highly recommended. A lot of new smartphones can record RAW, but you have to test. One of my phones does support RAW but is freezing the app when shooting so.
Basically all phone cameras shoot RAW and do internal JPG processing. This, because all have a sensor and sensor data is RAW! But you have to find out, which ones allow access to the RAW data. My old CAT S41 allows it, but the calibration in DT was important. My cheap Xiaomi Redmi 22033QNY is the one who freezes with RAW.
Important remark. Do not try to zoom or to set the aspect ratio when shooting raw. The raw image is always the full sensor image. At least when the phone camera has no optical zoom.
Your videos are always interesting. Well, it’s always nice to see a good person.
Thank you.
Bruce, thanks for all the great videos. I was working on a shot of a dragonfly recently and was surprised to find the JPEG (Sony A7 IV) appeared sharper than my edited RAW file (note- I did crop the shot significantly). I had included darktable sharpen in my edits, so I figured Sony's in-camera editing "secret sauce" is why. I guess my point is I was surprised that the JPEG appeared sharper than I could craft with darktable...in this case.
Interesting! I'll have to investigate with some of my images. I traditionally ignore the JPEGs.
I look forward to your next video on a noob's guide to working with raw files. I've always shot in raw, but struggle to get any of them processed because I don't understand what I'm doing or how to make it look good.
Hang tight... It's coming!
I've been using Darktable for several years and I cannot process RAW files to match the JPEGs that come out of my cameras, especially Olympus ones.
I don't think there's a RAW development engine out there that will "match" your camera's jpegs. The manufacturers all have their 'secret sauce' which is baked into the camera's image processor chip, so the only thing any software developer can do is to try and emulate that look, but it's never going to be perfect match.
Great tip about checking white balance. Being colour blind I need all the help I can get.
Haha, fair enough!
Great series Bruce. Thanks for posting. Any chance of putting together a Darktable process flow for images taken using a Hoya R72 filter on a non-converted camera?
That's a bit specific! 😃
I don't have one of those filters, and I'm not sure what you mean by a non-concerted camera?
@@audio2u My fault Bruce. I could have worded my comment better. My request is for a process to handle and enhance raw infrared images in Darktable. For those of us unwilling to have the ir blocking filter removed from our cameras, the budget alternative is to use a 720nm filter (such as the Hoya R72). The results are still quite dramatic, but either way, require some skill in manipulating in post. Hopefully, this will give a better idea: th-cam.com/video/26-WC2UqDe4/w-d-xo.html .
I have read that common cell phones are able to take photos in raw with appropriate additional software. Is this true? I've tried to research this and not using the right terms I guess. Any thoughts?
I am using the free app Manual Camera DSLR Pro. You can select between JPG and RAW. Calibration with a color checker and darktable is highly recommended. A lot of new smartphones can record RAW, but you have to test. One of my phones does support RAW but is freezing the app when shooting so.
There are some high end cell phone capable of shooting raw, but I don't know which ones they were.
Basically all phone cameras shoot RAW and do internal JPG processing. This, because all have a sensor and sensor data is RAW! But you have to find out, which ones allow access to the RAW data. My old CAT S41 allows it, but the calibration in DT was important. My cheap Xiaomi Redmi 22033QNY is the one who freezes with RAW.
Important remark. Do not try to zoom or to set the aspect ratio when shooting raw. The raw image is always the full sensor image. At least when the phone camera has no optical zoom.
Nice. Make one video about color harmonies soon., PLS . Have a nice weekend. :)
You too! Sadly, my weekend is over now. :(