Stupid questions thread

[myhui]

@gwbarn

I’m going to assume this is a colour management mismatch. Try changing the ‘display colour profile’ in Darktable; you can access it in Lighttable or by right clicking the softproof icon in Darkroom.
Otherwise, DT must apply raw black/white point, demosaic, input colour profile and output colour profile, and white balance is required to get the best demosaic results. 16 bit TIFF might be a good initial export target. You might get away with sRGB with an undeveloped raw, but linear rec2020 export profile would also work.

You are correct: I select display profile = “linear Rec2020 RGB”, intent=“absolute colorimetric”, and the DT raw image is slightly darker than the generated JPEG, JXL, or TIFF.

The left side is the TIFF: