Filmic RGB - loss of detail and saturation in high contrast scenes

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

@Chris_Harris

I would prefer if it, and all other tools, behaved more as they do in other apps in that on inception they start with the image unaltered and then move from that as you start to tweak.

Editing moments with darktable

Filmic can’t have neutral/no-op settings, just because it has a logarithm inside, which doesn’t tolerate zeros in RGB values, while its input can be zero. So there is always some lifting to do. The most you could do would be to set contrast = 1, latitude to 100%, scene grey to 18%, scene white to 2.45 EV and scene black to… -infinite EV.

You can enter these values and save them as a preset.