Scene referred, display referred, and the Colour Science of Canon/Fujitsu/Nikon/etc. in Darktable (filmic-rgb module in particular)

@OK1 I suspect you will get better direct feedback if you avoid writing a several hundred word prelude to your actual comments.

Having said that I do have a few presets but they are not for what you are suggesting. I have one for a very neutral setting of filmic as described in the manual and then I have a couple that turn off a couple of the color corrections and basically that is it for me. In the beginning I fiddled with filmic but once I understood it as many others here have suggested its really mostly about setting and or correcting your exposure and then just adjusting (mainly for me anyways) the white relative exposure and the black relative exposure.

Images can tend to be a bit flat or dark but I always pair filmic with the tone eq to bump the shadows and local contrast and color balance for further color and contrast. There are things you can tweak in filmic but for most of them its rarely necessary and it leads to people trying to get too much out of filmic often with frustration. If you use the EV display its pretty clear what you are doing when you move the sliders so if indeed you do understand the lighting then you should be all set.

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Any preset that attempts to provide a look in filmic will likely require just as much tweaking as if you had not crafted any preset IMO.

You could look at the experimental sigmoid module if you are looking for something simpler.

New Sigmoid Scene to Display mapping - #196 by priort

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