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Darktable, Windows Build and Needs Old NX Photos

Started May 30, 2020 | Discussions thread
Lawrence Norman
Lawrence Norman Regular Member • Posts: 437
Re: Darktable, Windows Build and Needs Old NX Photos

ttbek wrote:

TuVuVu wrote:

I just own the 2 newest NXers so I can't assist
I never knew about this gem for Windows, so I installed it, thank you

Read on if interested...
I use DXO Photolab as my RAW editor; provides DXOMARK's Body/Lens Database for RAW auto-correction. Interestingly though, no 10mm f/3.5 Fisheye.

Darktable's Body/Lens Correction is limited [for this niche feature] BUT look what I found on the first row below.

A quick review, no new Samsung Lenses e.g. 16-50 S f/2-2.8, big brother 50-150 S f/2.8, and older 18mm-200 Movie Pro.

I found this on the Darktable Feature Page:
https://www.darktable.org/about/features/
"lens defect correction using lensfun

Yep, they use the lensfun database, so taking the appropriate imageset and other calibration info and submitting it to lensfun will get your lens added. Kind of an involved process though. Here is a how to of sorts: https://pixls.us/articles/create-lens-calibration-data-for-lensfun/

Great read, thank you, and we know Darktable pulls from:
https://github.com/lensfun/lensfun
Looking at my Photolab installation, each Body/Lens data file resides in a .caf file (I doubt it's Apple's 'Core Audio Format"). Used a few tools to open a .caf file and learned more

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Samsung NX1 Samsung NX500 Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samyang 85mm F1.4 Aspherical IF +18 more
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