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What does RawSpeed mean for Leica SL2 and M11-P?

Jochen

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That darktable uses the RawSpeed library for decoding the raw files. It’s typically not something you need to worry about.

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Thanks for answer. It the same like Adobe Camera Raw?
Jochen

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No. That’s a propriety application; LibRaw is a free and open source library (software component) that applications can use to read raw files.

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No. ACR is a full raw processor, much like darktable is, that’s integrated with Photoshop. RawSpeed and LibRaw are libraries that decode the raw files into a common format so other programs can then process them.

From the RawSpeed GitHub:

So RawSpeed is not intended to be a complete RAW file display library, but only act as the first stage decoding, delivering the RAW data to your application.

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