out of the box RAW rendering not up to JPEGs

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For what it’s worth, I ended up turning a slight variation of this pic into a play-raw thread, if anyone is curious to play more with a large image.

[PlayRaw] The colorful bridge

So here’s an interesting challenge I offered the Darktable developers in another thread, thinking that it was just me having trouble with the tool. Turns out, I actually stumbled upon a lot of newbies mistakes but also key limitations of our free software tools. A bunch of people joined in to figure out what was up with that file and it was a bunch of fun. I nevertheless kept going and processed a final picture out of this thread. It turns out the picture I chose to do those tests was (somewhat…

Thanks again everyone for your contributions here, I learned a lot and it was amazing. Special thanks to @houz and other Darktable developers for their amazing work. It’s great to see you participate in the “user-land” discussions here and I really appreciate the time you take to actually do this.