| Latest Review Posted | DarkTable (Free Open Source) Fully non-destructive editing
Since there is no reviews yet, I'll volunteer to be first.
I've been using free operating systems (right now, FreeBSD) since before getting into photography, and had my share of hardships in the old days using the venerable ufraw+gimp for a long time, switching very quickly to rawstudio before discovering Darktable.
One of the things that made me going out of the prehistoric ages was the default color profiles applied to raws which matches very closely Pentax's ones. Importing images with default settings outputs images roughly equivalents to the default JPEG settings which is to my opinion a perfect start.
Then come the other modules: at first, the number can be a bit overwhelming, especially when quite a number can results in exactly the same output, and other roughly the same result using different methods. The manual can help to pick its set of modules, but it will take some time.
Yet, once you sorted out what you need, it is a very efficient tool that allows you to produce photos greatly enhanced from the in-body JPEG. Be sure to check modules such as "Shadow and highlights", "Local contrast", "Denoise (profiled)". Image processing modules are very good, those guys knows a lot in image processing and it shows.
Pentax's specific support do not end with color curves, the cameras supported for profiled denoising (ie adapted to the bodies) include a bunch of Pentaxes, and there is more and more support for Pentax lenses in the l... |
