7/31/2023 0 Comments Darktable 2.0.1![]() Now I am not the type of post processor who expects images completely devoid of any noise, in fact I don't mind a bit of luminance noise if I get more detail in return, but I'm sure you understand that I don't want to see obvious chroma noise in my images. ![]() But despite my best efforts the Darktable's JPEG of my first test shot contains A LOT more noise, especially chrominance, than the Rawtherapee one. So you probably understand that I did everthing I could to try to make Darktable's result match Rawtherapee's JPEG. Another nice touch was that whereas I had to manually choose the amount of lens correction in Rawtherapee, Darktable automatically detected my XZ-1 and I was able to apply lens correction with just 1 click! Pretty impressive! Darktable's user interface is a lot cleaner to me and I really like its managing capabilities and all the modules. From the moment I understood Darktable's user interface on, I really wanted it to win. And after a bit of reading on Rawpedia, I was able to process the two test shots easily. At first the Rawtherapee user interface was a bit intimidating, but I soon got the hang of it. They can be seen at the end of this post. Because I didn't have a low light/high ISO raw image yet, I decided to create my very own DPR-style test shots in low light (a.k.a. Because both had similar capability, one of the deciding factors would be their noise reduction abilities, because my XZ-1's sensor is really starting to show its age when cranking up the ISO value. So I installed both Rawtherapee (4.2.521, the latest version for OS X) and Darktable (2.0.1). I had already read that these two were pretty close to each other in terms of capability. Because I wanted an all-in-one solution for managing and processing my pictures with a nice user interface and not several programs stringed together, it became Darktable vs Rawtherapee. ![]() Of course as a former Linux user I had already heard of applications like Darktable, Rawtherapee, UFRAW and dcraw, but never actually used them. I decided against the Photos app because of the interface and reports of people having it fail on them (including a DPR member). So I had 2 choices basically: try a free (and open source) raw converter or use the Apple Photos app with the 10 euro DxO raw extension. I have been wanting to try Raw for a while, because I have severely limited funds (and I want to buy my first ILC this year ) I sure wasn't going to spend $100 on Lightroom or $130 on DxO Optics Pro. ![]()
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