I have worked up two versions of this image and finished one with AGX and the other with the experimental Spektrafilm tonemapper.
The differences aren’t great to my eyes but I just prefer the feel of the Spektrafilm colors to those from AGX.
Please go ahead with any of your own interpretations
A7R00652.ARW (41.6 MB)
A7R00652_Spektra.ARW.xmp (15.1 KB)
A7R00652_AGX.ARW.xmp (15.6 KB)
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I don’t get all of that yellow and brown at all. Is that really what the scene looked like?
Hey that’s a nice shot. It reminds me of the countryside and the steely grey skies here on the Cotentin peninsula.
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Hopefully it’s just this image, but had issues with RapidRaw (and it might also have something to do with some Bios modifications I recently did; if this happens again, I’ll go back to my old settings) so used DT to do the initial converstion and then fed result into GIMP/G’MIC. Oversharpened too far so tuned it back some using Buzz filter (oldy but goody; doubt it’s even still available anymore but I collect filters; lol). 
I went for some very different AgX primaries settings. I know it’s a very green result but I tried to keep some balance.
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I love AgX and I think it gives you all the control to get the colours you want. You altered colours anyway to such an extent, that I doubt, that you can judge colour reproduction on this edit.
This is not criticism. I alter colours the way I think they should look as well. I just think it’s not suited if you want to compare things. If it comes to comparison, I go with @Tim try to reproduce an as realistic render as possible. Then compare.
Love the question.
No it is not really what the scene looked like at all but…we have had a very dry and hot Summer in the UK, hottest and driest anyone alive can remember.
Most places look much browner than the treatment I gave this image and I wanted to give myself an impression of the Season we have just endured rather than an accurate rendition of this location which happens to be one of the few places that didn’t dry to a crisp.
fair comment
I’ll say the trees have been looking normal enough, but all the grass everywhere is just pale yellow straw like some patches in this picture. I haven’t had to mow my front or back gardens since like May, it’s just not growing.
Great shot! @Pberg your processing reminds me a bit of Kodachrome, so I tried a Kodachrome 64 LUT here
To my eye it looks like your two edits have different tone curves. I suppose that should not be a surprise. Colors I think are well-matched overall.
Here is another spektrafilm edit using a umax_fuji preset. I started with your dt “RAW” edit and took out some sat, changed the working color space to linear Rec 2020, and reduced contrast to taste. Export was to exr format with linear Rec-2020. That’s been my practice for awhile - I’m not sure it’s best, but it seems to work out ok.
I kept your color equalizer desat for the sky. I’m just guessing, but did you use a polarizer here?
Slightly different application of rgb CB
No standard tonemappers used for either version
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Nice ‘Fuji Greens’ with that Spektrafilm preset. Will look out for it myself when I can.
No Polariser used on the shot by the way.
Here is my edit in DT I didn’t play with the colors
A7R00652.ARW.xmp (11.1 KB)
A great shot… hope I did it justice. I started processing this whilst it was cloudy conditions (inside, so good light), then the afternoon sun comes streaming through the window… so I have no idea if this is any good as I can hardly see my screen… But i’m not knocking the sunshine!
Here it is…
Edit: binned the first attempt, cloudy again and I can see my errors… this is better IMO
Edit 2: I used RT 5.13 and tone mapper was Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch
