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No. I need ergonomic access to the controls. I don't otherwise care what they look like.

Placed my order yesterday afternoon.

Some considerations then concerning DarkTable since you asked. I don't know what type of photos you're working with or the extent of the editing you're interested in accomplishing so maybe this ...

You're dealing with a Microsoft policy problem. The Windows 10 apps, Photos, Edge, etc. do correctly process images' embedded ICC profiles. The problem you're encountering is that those apps do ...

I acknowledged that I'm not talking about the theoretical -- I said that. I am talking about the current state of what's available that you can go to a store a purchase now: "I can say that in our ...

Not that I'm aware of. I can say that in our industry with most of the cameras and software available for use and given the way that processing is currently implemented by the camera manufacturers ...

I'm not talking about theory but practice. For example you note that digital processing can use fractional bits or even floating point and in fact I know floating point digital scaling is an ...

That's not exposure bracketing. Changing only the ISO doesn't change the exposure. To change the exposure you have to change either the shutter speed, the f/stop or the light intensity. Depends on ...

No. I downloaded the Luminar 4 trail and examined it pretty carefully. I consider it to have major flaws that make it unsuitable. I expect a parametric raw editor to provide a non-destructive ...

Luminar however does not provide a non-destructive workflow.

And still no references -- I got it.

So, no testing from you and no references -- I got it.

There were two links to two articles one about photon noise and the other about read noise. I think he worded it very well both here: "Most modern sensors have pretty low upstream read noise, the ...

Those are quotes pulled directly from the two linked articles. I trust Richard Butler got this one right.

From trustworthy sources: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/8189925268/what-s-that-noise-shedding-some-light-on-the-sources-of-noise https://www.dpreview.com/articles/0388507676/sources-of-noise-pa ...

Capture One + PS.

Got it -- I'm strictly a photographer who only wants to take and edit photos. I really like now that I don't get caught having to re-do previous work in a raster editor because I want to make an ...

DarkTable can clone material from one location and copy it to another but the ability is limited. That's where a raster editor becomes essential -- creating as you say. Many raw converters used to ...

It's not that GIMP isn't non-destructive. In a raw workflow no raster editor is 100% non-destructive not even PhotoShop. You also can't be 100% non-destructive if you're moving between two apps a) ...

Yes, but why? If you have DarkTable can you avoid using GIMP? What do you need to do in GIMP that you can't do in DarkTable? If you move an image from DarkTable to GIMP it should be a 16 bit TIFF. ...