Lost highlights in darktable

How about something like this?
The key is to not use highlight reconstruction with clip highlights. Set it to reconstruct in LCh or disable it altogether (but then you’ll have to deal with the magenta highlights e.g. in filmic).

Or this:
_DSC7880.ARW.xmp (7.8 KB)


_DSC7880.ARW_01.xmp (10.1 KB)

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