How to use captureone color profile ((Sony ARW) in the darktable?

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Dear, I have a color profile for my Sony A6300 camera that I took from an old captureone license that I have, “SonyA6300-Generec.icm”. How do I use this file on Darktable?

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Edit: Darktable does not support ICM files, I think. If you can extract the data into ICC,
(thanks, @Claes!)

Change the file extension to icc, and then put it under
$DARKTABLE/share/darktable/color/in or $HOME/.config/darktable/color/in (where $DARKTABLE is the darktable installation directory and $HOME is your home directory).
On Windows, C:\users\your-user\AppData\Local\darktable\color\in.

See
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/module-reference/processing-modules/input-color-profile/

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I use DT in Windows 11

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Then:

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@kofa:

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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Thanks. I must have confused it with DCP.

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It might expect a certain curve to be valid…ie give you a similar result as in C1

Edit I copied some from a trial version of C! one time and tried to use them…Everything was very dark. It wasn’t until some time later when I tried to use x-rite software with DT that I got the same sort of thing I was very careful with exposure and made 16bit linear tiff files for those profiles and then I tried gamma setting in the unbreak profile module. And the xrite profile looked great. That is when I found out the profile is expecting a gamma curve of some kind… or least it would appear…

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This will explain how colour profile for capture one and other softwares are created
Lumariver/dcamprof

dcamprof is the free commandline version. some links
RawTherapee-DCamProf

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It would require the use of the 'unbreak profile ’ module , with having to play around with settings right ?

And you’ll quickly loose highlight detail in my experience.

I liked the look of it at one point - quite recently even. But let it go again when noticing highlight work was hard / impossible and i started to doubt the ‘correctness’ of the colors (although they did look nice and punchy ).