Use the saturation or chroma to see if you get the right orange… chroma pulled back will go a bit more to gray and saturation towards white or try sucking some orange out with negative vibrance as all those could work to give you that muted orange… then you could mask and just rotate the hue a bit…
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Thank you. I hope I’m not being a pest, but I’m learning tons!
Beside the embedded jpg: can’t your cam do manual in-camera raw processing? “Retouch menu” for my Z50.
Could be. It is not my camera (I borrowed it for a while), so I’m not very familiar with all it can do.
Meanwhile, I figured out how to extract a full-sized jpg from the raw file:
exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw DSC_1659.NEF > real-jpg.jpg
Is this the same as priort’s preview extract? They came from different tags in the raw file, but they look the same to me. I.e., I thought his would be a smaller size, but both appear to be 6016x4016.
PS - On my system, when I use the PreviewImage tag, the jpg output file is 141,822 bytes, but when I use the jpgFromRaw tag, it is 2,168,419 bytes. So it appears that @priort used jpgFromRaw, too.
Im on windows so I just use a little program called ERAwP short for extract raw preview… you can do a folder or a selection of files…
Rawtherapee can get pretty close out of the gate and the lcp file from adobe has vignette correction which is pretty strong in this image so it also really helps to nicely brighten up the photo…
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Ok, I’m calling it a day with this one. I set WB to As Shot and made some gentle adjustments to Vibrance and Brilliance in Color Balance RGB. Also added a bit of contrast.
The orange color is pretty close to what I remember, and it was only two days ago.
DSC_1659_02.NEF.xmp (5.8 KB)
Throw it in to RT and use the Adobe LCP file… that does a nice job on that oppressive vignette…much easier to edit…DT has no vignette correction for this lens…
Thanks, but I don’t have Raw Therapee.
If you have a little spare diskspace & time - costs nothing further to install RawTherapee for a play.
rawtherapee download: RawTherapee - Downloads
I’ve come to understand darktable better - but rawtherapee certainly has its unique advantages and is useful to have in the toolbox.
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…and FWIW, there’s also ART, just for one more option.
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I considered installing Raw Therapee, but Adobe LPC requires Wine, and I will not do Wine.
Thanks, again.
Windows box or VM…install DNG converter and then just grab the LCP and DCP files that you want for use on your system.
I have by far edited more in DT than Art or RT… often because of the masking but these other two have some awesome tools and often can very quickly get to a nice result …certainly for those who knock DT for not having that JPG look out of the gate then RT or ART can be an option with their auto match curve…
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That lens vignettes really heavily when shot wide open.
According to their evaluation:
on the full-frame D800e, however, we note that at ƒ/2.8 you’ll be seeing corners which are a full stop darker than the center.
I’ve used an extra instance of exposure and some color picker samples to guesstimate a correction:
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Yes, I have read several reviews about that. They recommend trying to shoot at f/5.6 or less to avoid significant vignetting with this lens.
You live and learn.
This may be a stupid question, but I’m going to ask it, anyway. 
Would it do any great harm to copy the vignette corrections from the G model to the entry for this E model in my lensfun database? Might it even actually work?
PS - I went ahead and tried it, and it does work!
There may be some technical reason but if it looks better …
