Exporting as .EXR, however, did not preserve metadata.
You can if you select all of the export options, per the release notes.
Yes, but itās not actually an ideal solution either. EXR is not really well standardized/equipped for rich metadata exchange (they have their own āattributesā that cover a subset of what photographers are used to and a lot of code needs to be written to translate those back and forth from Exif/XMP), so darktable just embeds its Exif payload as a binary blob and XMP as a string. AFAIK, only GIMP is able to parse those back from EXRs. TIFF indeed makes better sense.
Nope: free as in speech (āfree as in beerā is freeware, not FOSS).
thx!! updated
Yesā¦ there is a official metadata list but every camera manufacture uses thier ownā¦ the ARRI one is probably the most used standard.
Darktable is easy to pick up.
no way, its practically impossible for new users (or so Iāve been told).
It is possible, but takes a lot of time and efforts. Watching tutorials by Boris is a must.
The average photographer vs a VFX professional.
My target audience for the article would all-ready be familiar with other far more complex image software like Houdini/Maya/Nuke/Adobe Suite. and ās DTās UI is quick to pick up if you know a dozen or so other apps. Itās not too crazy or unique, and has been well thought outā¦
The only thing I needed to google using it was where the icc profile folder is, and the description of the scripts.
Man I still remember my early days using darktableā¦
During my first contact with the software (circa late 2020), I had no idea that you can edit photos, I thought that itās just a fancy photo library lmaoā¦ 
(I genuinely didnāt knowā¦)
Later on when I actually started editing, it was like wow, thereās so many modules and stuff.
Great to see you promoting DT which I agree is an excellent program. However, were do you get your beer for free. I want to live there. I only get rainwater in my water tanks for free. 