r/DarkTable

Hi, this might be a bit of a long shot…

I just got a Sony A7V (ILCE-7M5) and realized that darktable doesn’t fully support its RAW files yet. I did manage to get things partially working using a fix from GitHub (nightly build), but I’ve run into another issue.

I’m a pretty casual user and usually like my RAW edits to start out looking close to the in-camera JPEG. The problem is that there’s no camera style/profile for the A7V yet, so the images look quite different straight out of darktable.

Does anyone know when proper support (including styles/profiles) might be added? or if someone more experienced could help create a .dstyle (XML) that gets me ~90% close to the JPEG look?

Any tips, workflows, or pointers would be really appreciated 🙏

Post by Mohammed H. Najjar on VERO shot on FujiFilm X100VI and processed via Darktable .. summer 2025 London, England

https://preview.redd.it/3ccbjghen5xg1.jpg?width=5520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d355ec59a327583789f17e69049f2c76b16e4616

Shot with my Nikon Z7, ISO 160, F5.6, 1/200, Prime Nikon 50mm f/1.8 S

Hey folks!

I usually take from the internet so I figured I'd give a little back today.

I'm posting a link to my darktable CSS theme edits.

I tried to get it looking as good as possible! It doesn't do a ton but it helps to darken down some of the areas that the default themes miss, in my opinion it makes it look 10% better.

Make sure you're running the 'darktable' theme before pasting this CSS in.

Darkroom tab > settings gear icon > general page > darktable theme > paste in CSS > save.

Enjoy!

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Hello.

TL;DR: How do I linearize a RAW foto of a SpyderChecker to get it as close to the reference as possible?

I want to digitize an antique color-sample collection (Baumann-Prase, 1928), have fotographed the whole thing (some 40 cards with small color-patches organized in "gradients"). For the fotos, I tried to create a situation as precise as possible and made the pics in cloudy daylight, and got myself a Datacolor SpyderChecker24 for the color-reference and calibration of the fotos. So far so good (I thought). Being new to RAW _and_ DarkTable doesn't help either...

Now, I am a bit at my whits end, I'm totally unsure how to proceed: Do I make adjustments until the digital patches are the least visible on the colorchecker-foto? (Make a visual calibration?) Or is there another way/method?

Glad for any hints and pointers!

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Stack for the other picture

result of the stack

Hi, I'm using DT since a couple of months, and I have a few pipeline questions.

I capture my negs with a Nikon Z5 / Nikkor 50MC, CSLite and CSLite+ Spectracolor, auto WB settings, and auto exposure settings in camera.

- Should I instead use a fixed color temperature for any and all film roll?

- What's the most correct illumination setting, in Color Calibration, for a CSLite + / Spectracolor table? I currently use the settings for LED light Violet, or LED light Blue, or Incandescent high CRI 5000, and while they are "good" perceptually, any setting tends to be inconsistent in a row on images got in the same location and time, even with Negadoctor staying the same throughout. Is this a problem of auto WB in digital camera capturing?

- Should I edit the Exposure module, in a negative inversion pipeline, or leave it at default, and use either or both the exposure bias and paper pivot in Negadoctor?

- What's the correct process to copy / paste edits?
- I noticed that lens correction specifically (maybe others) edits don't get copy pasted, unless I use CTRL+SHIFT+C / CTRL+SHIFT+V and select "Append".
- Also, "Overwrite" does reset and deactivate any other module except the ones selected, instead of only overwriting the ones selected and leaving the Others in the current state, whatever it might be: is overwriting only X and leave Y untouched, the case for "Append"?
- I'm unclear as to what CTRL+C / V actually does, whether some subset of Append, or Overwrite, or other.

- In the negative inversion pipeline, what is the correct stack order for Negadoctor and Color Calibration? Which should stay on top?
- In a way, it's proper that Color Calibration should stay on the bottom, but then, all the illumination choices are blind, as whatever you do there, screws with the negadoctor selections, no? Any suggestion for the order of operations in the two modules?

Thank you!