sluggy_warrior

Nice! The 18-55 is pretty much glued to my X-T20, the perfect size allowing the camera to be with me most of the time, and thus, don't miss these type of shots. But I believe the 18-55 does look ...

The most performance-intensive module is "Profiled Denoise", and I have three instances to cope with both chroma and luma noise. Without denoising, exporting a 24MP RAF can be very quick. The ...

Thanks for the link. My Python scripts are mostly custom tailored to my workflow only. Just in case it can spark some ideas for you, I currently use two scripts: 1. Select panorama script: I shoot ...

From your responses so far, I think you really need to reconsider shooting in RAW instead. Storage is cheap. I value my efforts in picking and editing the photos, so I'd rather have that efforts ...

A good read with samples on JPG generation loss: https://cloudinary.com/blog/why_jpeg_is_like_a_photocopier

Maybe take a look at how darktable implemented their DAM features? They do use a SQLite DB internally for fast indexing/querying but also store the image operations in sidecar XMP files. https://gi ...

Maybe look into the GTX 10xx series? They're significantly more power-efficient than previous generation. Not sure how much PS utilizes OpenCL, but Phoronix did a benchmark against darktable a ...

Just wondering if a GPU will be a better investment instead. At least for my darktable workflow, the export time for a 24MP RAW, with 3 instances of the performance-intensive Profiled Denoise ...

Yes, that's why proper software such as darktable and LR are "non-destructive". They apply operations (exposure, cropping, rotating, ...) on top of your original image to create an output/export ...

darktable is free/open-source, works on Linux, OSX, and Windows. It's very similar to LR (a lot of people even called it a LR-clone :-) https://www.darktable.org/ But, as krassphoto mentioned, ...

FWIW, I don't know how I missed this article that addressed the same problem with small details loosing colors in SOOC JPG: https://petapixel.com/2017/01/27/x-trans-promise-problem/ Although the ...

Interesting comparison. Would love to see a comparison between LR and darktable, especially with a decent GPU. On my i5-7300HQ laptop (with 16GB RAM), darktable is smooth, but with OpenCL on a ...

There were mainly two issues: 1. worms: most likely a result of early ACR/LR demosaic combined with over-sharpening, very rare to encounter, but can be reproduced if needed. Example post: https://w ...

Sorry for the late reply, I was out shooting a karate exam tonight. I've just tested darktable with a GFX50S RAW file pulled from dpreview studio scene, everything works fine, and here's the ...

darktable ,free/open source, with very active development: https://www.darktable.org/ works on Linux, OSX, and Windows. I've been using it exclusively the last 4 years, processing hundreds of RAW ...

I don't have LRCC, but my best guess would be somehow the color profile is incorrect (either sRGB is interpreted as AdobeRGB, or vice versa, or something else). Which color profile do you set in ...

Yeah, as mentioned, Darktable only releases stable versions officially (2.4.4 so far). The git master branch basically is development snapshot, if you don't know how to compile it yourself (which ...

Darktable got support for X-T100 a few weeks back, I can confirm that it works well (I'm on their git's master branch). If you don't mind compiling from source yourself, just checkout the master ...

FWIW, Wasabi has various prints on their batteries, sometimes it's "Premium Grade A Cells", on some it's "Premium Cells From Japan". Whatever that means, they've been working fine so far for me, ...

I had a pair of Wasabi since last year, and been cycling mostly between them, the OEM mostly a backup. I've been through a trip and a summit last month, they probably up to about 150 charge cycles ...