Hi,
I’m having a problem with the following sunset. I’m seeing a halo around the sun in my development:
However in the JPEG direct from the camera, the halo seems not to be there or at least it’s not so pronounced like in my development from RAW:
Do you have any ideas what can be the reason for this halo and how to get rid of it?
Thanks!
DSC09646.ARW (23.8 MB)
DSC09646.ARW.xmp (13.2 KB)
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Might be a few things going on, might just be processing steps.
Exiftool reports the white-level as 15360 for this file, while Darktable sets it too high.
Setting white-level to 15360, disabling highlight reconstruction and filmic and lowering exposure way down you can see what’s in your sensor data (sort of):
I think the halo you are referring to is visible here, and is basically heavy fringing / chromatic aberrations I’m guessing.
I’ve been toying around, but I’ve issues getting the look from the jpeg.
Probably because it’s full of the chroma-shift that filmic tries so hard to prevent 
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But that little red border is hard to remove, maybe a lens-profile might help.
If I process the ARW through DxO, it’s also an unknown lens so no lens corrections, but I can crank the chromatic-aberrations module up and enable ‘fringing correction’ to get rid of it.
Saving that as a DNG and processing it in Darktable gives an easier workflow for me, but it’s obviously not for everyone .
RGB white balance and oklab tonemapping at 20% strength (pratically hue is 80% from the rgb tonemapped image to match the sony colors)
RGB white balance and oklab tonemapping at 100% strength
DCP profile and oklab tonemapping at 100% strength
CAT white balance and oklab tonemapping at 100% strength (I’ve used ART and Photoflow but colors are similar to Darktable’s rendering)
@7osema CAT white balance looks off to me, maybe a little too much pink-ish.
Thanks to share these pictures!
Yes, I think thats the case. Another example where a “broken” image looks better that the right one
I’m using old lens: a Canon AE 135mm F3.5 Stephen Daugherty Photography - Canon New FD 135mm f/3.5. So I don’t think there is a lens profile for it.
There is something strange with those lens. Sometimes I get strong shadows in one border of the picture like in the following case:
DSC09617.ARW (23.9 MB)
But sometimes I don’t see it at all, like in this case:
DSC09630.ARW (23.8 MB)
Does someone have an idea why this happens?
@jorismak What are for you the advantages using the DNG format?
@age First I found the sony colours better, but the following day I observed the sunset again while watching the pictures 
I realised that the colours I get with darktable are more similar to what I saw in reality.
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None, as the format has nothing to do with it :).
I use a commercial application to open and demosaic the raw file , and apply some fixes (like in this case the chromatic aberrations around the sun disc ) before loading it into Darktable.
Darktable works faster because it doesn’t has to do sharpening , denoising, demosaicing, etc…
In this case, the only reason is that i can’t seem to get rid of the red fringing around the sun with the ‘chromatic aberration’ module in Darktable, but DxO’s aberration fixer clears it right up.
