Hallöchen!

Marie-Noëlle Augendre writes:

> [...]
>
> Currently, I'm obliged to deactivate the basic curve as all my
> images seem to picture lobsters instead of tennis players (or
> whatever people I'm shooting): all the skin tones are very, very
> red.

For my camera, the enhanced colour matrix intensifies reds, too,
compared to the standard matrix.  But my own measurements confirmed
this.  Well, they make deep reds darker.  But skin tones are
practically untouched.

And yes, the basecurve intensifies some already intensive colours
even more.  Sometimes, removing the leftmost point of the basecurve
helps -- just drag it out of the plot to the left.

But:

I played around with it now, and find the basecurve's behaviour a
little bit suspicious.  I don't know whether this is intended
behaviour though.  Steps to reproduce:

1. Download
   https://bob.ipv.kfa-juelich.de/bronger/nex7_calibration/DSC02310.ARW

2. Import this RAW in DT.

3. Set up colour picker areas on patches L17 (red) and GS23 (black).
   Use the "RGB" mode to display values.

4. Now switch on and off basecurve and see how the green channel
   value is mapped from similar values to totally different values
   by the basecurve.

Now, this may simply mean that I have not understood what basecurve
actually does.  I thought it was applied as a tone curve to the RGB
channels separately.  But this clearly is here not the case.

Interestingly enough, there are three ways to eliminate this odd
mapping:

* You may switch the input profile from any matrix (standard or
  enhanced) to linear RGB.

* You may switch the display profile from sRGB to linear.

* You may remove the lowest control point of the basecurve.

The latter two make me think that it is some sort of rounding
error.  The green value is clipped to zero, and the sRGB gamma
cannot recover it anymore.

So, is it a bug?

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger    Jabber ID: [email protected]
                                  or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com


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