reproduce processing of a poco phone

Festa Soccorso Moranego 2026-08-05–17.52.04.dng (32.2 MB)

Here there is a dng from my poco phone and its phone-generated jpg.

I cannot find a way in DT to get the smooth and shiny marble of the jpg, I tried with all types of deblur, sharpen, etc. but I always remain with a lot of noise.

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Festa Soccorso Moranego 2026-08-05–17.52.04.dng.xmp (15,0 KB)

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Festa Soccorso Moranego 2026-08-05–17.52.04.dng.xmp (19.9 KB)

Manufacturers use all the data they have on their products to do a great job of fine-tuning.
It’s very difficult to eliminate noise and maintain sharpness across the board.
By the way, in this case, I haven’t been able to get the darkroom, JPG, and DNG files to have the same orientation simultaneously for comparison.

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this DNG causes DT 5.6 to crash on my Windows 11 instal. When I remove the picture from the folder I can then open DT again. I have repeated this action and wonder if I am the only one affected?

Festa Soccorso Moranego 2026-08-05–17.52.04.dng.xmp (7.4 KB)

My dt 5.6 is not crashing on Win11.
I also couldn’t compare with a snapshot of the phone jpg. I had to rotate it counterclockwise and export as jxl to make darktable not get confused.
The phone software is doing some magic there. I can’t get the hair like that. I also don’t know what I’m doing anyway :slight_smile: