Sidestep the tonemapper wars, develop your raw files like your granddad did

Just pushed some significant changes. Both slide and negative films are now considered being in working state, both needed fixing (Tri-x was always fine)

Most significant was perhaps a fix affecting all color films, based on “On the theory of tone reproduction…” (Jones, 1920). For the rest, check the git log. The spectral upsampling discussed above is baked in.

A gamma variable was discovered that was variable during the physical process too, so that’s a switch now, you can generate LUTs with your own gamma. This might later replace the paper based punch/softness, with papers getting their own “dimension” in the combination of things resulting to LUTs.

NOTE: for all slide films, the LUTs noting punch/softness are all the old garbage and will be removed. Only the 2 ilfochrome and the radiance III versions are considered working

Some samples:

Ektachrome classic radiance III

velvia classic radiance III

reala classic normal (normal is becoming a misnomer here, papers will have their own name, and punch will be controlled by gamma)

portra classic normal

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