Dear Glenn,
Thanks for your efforts. I plan to read your series on developing the profiles, too.
I’ve tried the D7000 profile in darktable, and on some pictures it worked well, on others all highlights were clipped. I assume that’s because it’s not a matrix, so won’t simply map overexposed areas (which would then be brought back to the SDR using e.g. filmic).
What I’ve done is to move one instance of exposure before input colour profile to tame the highlights, and left one instance of exposure on its default path in the pipe, after input colour profile, to shift midtones where I wanted them. This way, the profile works on all photos. Can you confirm this is the right way / an acceptable way to use the profiles under darktable?
BTW, I like your attitude a lot. I used to work with a chap, who you remind me of: he’s a physicist by training (we’re programmers, but work on enterprise (= boring) stuff); a tinkerer like you, always working on some project: a microcontroller, a Raspberry Pi experiment, his sailboat, woodcrafting…
Cheers,
Kofa