Darktable nightly and newly supported file formats

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Hi all,

I’m a longtime darktable user and first-time forum poster here.

I’m happy to see that the upcoming darktable 4.6.0 supports some new file formats, like

  • Nikon high efficiency NEFs
  • Samsung Expert RAW DNGs
    As I’ve been eagerly waiting for such support.

I attempted to clone the darktable github repo and build last night’s nighly tag, and this worked great. I can run the test/nightly version - but sadly I don’t seem to be able to read/adjust the new file formats. I get the same error as I see in 4.4.2 when I attempt to open the darkroom view on such an image.

I’m assuming this is something I’m doing wrong, as this is the first time I’ve built and run a nightly build.

Any idea what I can do to work with the new file formats in the nightly build?

Thanks!

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it would help to mention on which OS you are.

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I does not yet unfortunately. It still lists those under “Missing Compression Mode Support”.

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Arch linux

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I does not yet unfortunately. It still lists those under “Missing Compression Mode Support”.

Hmm, it’s possible that I’m misreading this, but the release notes do say “Missing Compression Mode Support” under “Camera Support, compared to 4.4”.

In other words, I thought that since these items specifically listed, compression support is “fixed” not “still missing”.

Alas, I see this issue is still open:

So perhaps you are right.

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The items referred to are listed under

Camera support, compared to 4.4
(…)
Missing Compression Mode Support

Apple ProRAW DNGs
CinemaDNG lossless (Blackmagic, DJI, etc.)
Fujifilm lossy RAFs
Nikon high efficiency NEFs
Samsung Expert RAW DNGs
Sony downsized lossless ARWs ("M" for full-frame, "S" for full-frame & APS-C)

I read that as: “compared to version 4.4, we are still missing support for the compression mode for the following cameras/file formats”…

Information from the camera makers about those compression schemes tends to be as available as for the makernote part of the EXIF metadata.