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

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

Just ran across a good explanation by @anon41087856 for why dt’s filmic can’t have a neutral default:

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.