Wow! Call me impressed!
I will work with it over the next few days and report back here. Its about time I took the D5 out for some post-snow shooting.
Thanks for the heads up!
Wow! Call me impressed!
I will work with it over the next few days and report back here. Its about time I took the D5 out for some post-snow shooting.
Thanks for the heads up!
If it is Nikon D5, do note that we are missing the full sample set for that camera.
It would be really great if you could contribute. See Raw Samples Wanted for details, or ask
I will check that and contribute. Also for my D850.
I have no issue with people not liking particular aspects of darktable, FLOSS software or whatever, but I particularly do not understand your rant here for several reasons:
Your decision for or against darktable is not important for me, but I dislike the “sound” of your posting that imputes the developers with responsibility that simply is not there. And, this never has and never will be how FLOSS software works.
That’s the right spirit, are you the same David_Heintz or did I misinterpret your post by that degree? Or are people simply more complex than I can imagine?
No, for that we have the full set.
For D5, the same (8) count of samples is needed though, according to the PDF usermanual.
I am he, and you are perhaps misinterpreting me. The OP asked how DT performed on the Mac. I responded, and reiterated my feelings about commitment to the Macintosh platform. Don’t read anything else into it - certainly not a rant.
I wasn’t talking about the urgent need for an update. I own (paid for by me) virtually every piece of raw processing software out there, Mac and PC, but I do most of my work on the Mac. Have been an Adobe beta tester for over 20 years, Phase One for 10 years, etc. Some experience in the flow of software updates.
I was referring to the gap between the other platforms and the Mac version. I fail to appreciate the cost issue for Mac equipment. In the short period of time this issue has emerged, at least two people have volunteered to compile the thing, and I hereby volunteer as well, if someone were to walk me through it. Are we saying there are only three Mac users out there?
I did go over the process, and I certainly do not believe it to be Rocket Science, time consuming, or even that difficult. The setup is involved, and requires messing around with terminal and hidden files, etc. which I don’t like doing if not needed. But, again, not that difficult.
So, my issue has been the gap between Mac and the other platforms in this release. Perhaps this is simply just not a Mac friendly community, or a Mac biased community. If so, and as I so advised the OP, it is something to be aware of before investing time on your Mac platform…
You will have what you need for the Nikon D5 from me by the end of the coming week. I am going through my annual new year file setup, so can’t get it sooner…
Sounds great, no rush
If you do have any questions about what samples are needed, do ask.
So, what you want are shots taken with the following settings:
12bit-compressed
12bit-uncompressed
12bit-lossless-compressed
14bit-compressed
14bit-uncompressed
14bit-lossless-compressed
small NEF
medium NEF
Just one lens, no particular subject - say, outside shot of my house and our lake in good sunlight at f5.6 and iso 100? Nikon 28mm 1.4E?
If so, I can give you the D3s as well, as I also have that most wonderful camera.
Yep, sounds wonderful!
Note the bit about about the samples having the same static content, so tripod is highly recommended.
We have no samples at all for D3s
, so it would be great
There, you will only have 6 samples, no small/medium RAW.
Ok again. Some of these will be large files. Have not read through the instructions, but is this an ftp or can you take large email attachments?
Volunteering is a great idea. My advise, now that a DMG has been released, would be to try and start building it now. Start by getting the environment and tooling in place, and slowly working though the build process.
Hey David, thanks for the reply! Can you confirm it is using the GPU properly?
Thanks,
Andrea
Platform? What platforms? There is not just one Linux out there. You have tons of distributions bundeling packages. I’m using Debian Stretch
which is the current stable release of Debian and there is no official darktable 2.4.0 package out there until now. I guess it well arive at some point in the future in the so called backports
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For me there exists a clear distinction between releases of source code and packages, because I’m using Linux distributions since a while. This is for users of other platforms maybe not obivous. Well, I compile darktable myself so I don’t have to wait. This enables me to follow the development like a sheep and to blat like it if there goes something wrong even it is my fault. So at least I try to report bugs .
Andrea,
I can tell you that 2.4.0 is as fast as any other raw processor for the Mac, and I pretty much have them all. System 10.13.5 beta with 16GB ram.
There is a flatpak of darktable as well, available from flathub.
Some time ago I did a formula for homebrew (I receive a lot of help from Darktable team). This formula was not accepted by homebrew team for different reasons.
The next week I’ll verify if it works. It’ll allow to build darktable easily for eager mac users.