ufraw, anyone still using it?

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Hi there!
I don’t see many threads here talking about ufraw, so I wonder whether I’m the only one left using it :wink::

I briefly tried Darktable and RawTherapee, but they both give me the (wrong) impression that I’m not in full control of the process:

  • The curves are not smooth: when I start from the basic curve, add a point and start dragging it around, I see that the curve has a weird shape, much more complex than the one I get in ufraw. I find it harder to get the exact result I’m looking for.

  • I suspect that Darktable is doing some extra processing of the image: sometimes when playing with the curve I can see a certain “halo” around those parts of the image which lay next to overexposed areas, as if Darktable was trying to smooth out the transition.

Have you met similar issues, and generally, if you have used both ufraw and these more advanced processors, how do you compare them?

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Last news were 2015, hmmm
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

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There is also the nUFRaw:
http://matteolucarelli.altervista.org/nufraw/

It also comes as an option in Partha’s Gimp for Win.

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Besides nufraw that others have mentioned, it looks like one of the authors of ufraw is actually keeping on developing it here: GitHub - sergiomb2/ufraw: This is **not** the official ufraw, just why not migrate ufraw from cvs to git ?
Looks like it’s actively maintained.

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Does ufraw got fork into nufraw because the development is too slow?

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The ufraw maintainer announced his retirement from the project in December 2016, IIRC. nufraw was born shortly afterwards, so I guess this was in response to that. However, the ufraw project continued to be developed in github.

If we now compare the history of changes of nufraw and ufraw, it doesn’t look like the former is being more actively developed than the latter: