darktable-chart, dt 5.4.1, SpyderChecker24, and OM-3

I just spent a day trying to get a dt style that would work for OM-3 raws (not that there hasn’t been a huge improvement in OM camera raw handling in 5.x, for which I thank the devs), but was ultimately unsuccessful at getting something useful. Some comments:

  • darktable-chart is rigid and uninformative about ‘errors’ in .cht files. As noted here, stray tabs on a ‘blank’ line will cause parse errors with no help.
  • one comment in the linked thread (or another, maybe) was that the 24 tile SpyderChecker chart wouldn’t be enough, and that may be correct - I can’t tell - but the output, while close wasn’t as bright or saturated in some areas, and my lame attempts to patch that and some color shifts just made it worse.
  • So, Olympus/OM color science can’t be contained in SpyderChecker24 charts, I guess, and I do like it.

On a side note, if anyone cares, the scene-referred default sigmoid, color calibration, and exposure settings are pretty good. I most often adjust exposure a bit, and always turn on local contrast, and that gets me very close to most OOC JPEGs.

Did you try instead using CC with the Spyder checker ??

When using DT chart did you match to the JPG or to the reference chart?

If you are handy with the command line you could try DT solver…

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