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What's involved with adding support for new cameras

What's involved with adding support for new cameras

Update: This post is a few years old by now, and while most things are still valid there is at least one change: darktable doesn’t use dcraw/libraw and more.

Say you’re running darktable, you’ve just bought a brand spanking new camera and it’s not supported yet by darktable. Here is a list …


String freeze for darktable 1.1

String freeze for darktable 1.1

Yes.

As of today we are in string freeze for the next darktable version. Version 1.1 will not only contain bug fixes (that too) but a lot of new features. Some of them long-wanted, some of them you haven’t even dreamed about.

As usual we follow our release procedure:

  • String freeze (as of now). Translators …


Geotagging in darktable

Geotagging in darktable

![Geotagging module](geotagging_module.jpg)
Geotagging module

For quite some time people have asked us for a way to geotag their images from within darktable. While that is a nifty feature for sure and really helpful when you take pictures outside of a studio we always had to say something along the lines of …


Grouping

Grouping

People following the development of darktable might have heard that we added a grouping feature. Everyone who hasn’t heard of that yet: We added a grouping feature.

Now that everybody knows about it I should try to explain what it actually is and how it works/how to use it. For the technical specification …


edge aware image development

edge aware image development

in an ideal world, an image is piecewise smooth. it has soft gradients, some detail and edges. in particular there’s no noise and the edges are sharp. given these assumptions, you can do a lot of cool things to your pictures, using techniques like frequency space editing, wavelets, or local histograms. …


Experimental darktable OS X image

Experimental darktable OS X image

After the progress reported in the latest blog post on the OS X port of darktable we now have something new for the Mac users:

parafin just released an experimental DMG image of darktable!

Please be aware of this being an experimental OS X build as well as experimental software in general – it’s based on the …


Bringing current darktable to OS X

Bringing current darktable to OS X

darktable has been software of my choice for raw photo development for quite some time now, I’ve occasionally submitted bug reports and patches and kept an eye on current development by using git master version. My main operating system is Linux, which is the priority target of darktable support, but …