Trust me you don't want to hear allergies, nose clearing and throat sounds. People say get rid of the music and don't know what they're asking for. Thanks for stopping by but frankly I'm probably not coming back to this. Didn't attract the audience I want.

I'm not sure what feature I missed or didn't cover. I just said I don't think it's a good fit for an average non-photo-geek person these days vs a smartphone. Certainly not if you pay some inflated eBay price on these. Have it already kicking around in your drawer? Then sure, it's a fine camera. Paying $150-$200 used for it at the end of 2024? Ehh ... not so much. Even compared to newer yet still old things in Panasonic's own line up with the GF1-GF3 I find it hard to justify. I just find myself reaching for other tools like my X100s. Plus, knowing there are better options on the used market going for similar prices or less make it a hard sell. The GF3 is marginally larger than this, still pretty darn small and can be had on eBay (with the kit lens) for what these sell for more or less. It's also way to small for my hands to really use comfortably but that's a personal thing.

Please share your settings

I found some, they still aren’t quite as ubiquitous as the Nikon and Canon bridge camera aftermarket batteries.

The sensor’s dynamic range is probably the biggest short coming compared to modern smartphones. Noise can be handled in post like you say but blown away highlights kind of are what they are. Smartphone image quality has come a long way due to their internal pricing.

optically, this is almost a masterpiece, and shooting in rav will give a completely detailed and natural picture, not comparable to the program image of an iPhone

It’s not a bad camera. I just think compared to a contemporary smartphone it’s a hard sell for most people.

The way the interface on filmic works makes it easier to recover and control for highlights than sigmoid

I didn’t write the software and there’s none taken. I think it definitely requires one to know their craft beyond what most other RAW developers do. It’s more akin to something like Davinci Resolve (maybe Capture One, but even it’s not that close) than Lightroom. Video editors and colorists seem more comfortable with Darktable than photographers in my experience. Conversely, the control it gives you is far greater than Lightroom’s. But I see what you’re saying. 90% of the photography market is about speed and presets. Coming from the other direction I think it’s sad that few photographers have interest in the backbone of the editing and just want to one click and done. Editing and developing in the film world is at least 50% of the craft. The implementation isn’t perfect and I do find bugs somewhat often, but the more technical intent is a nice change from the “use this black box and just accept what it does” that the rest of the photo editing world takes.

@@LeanderHuttonPhoto Makes sense given the fact that photographers are some of the most computer illiterate folks around these days. You see evidence of this fact seeing as how most of them who seek aid for issues they have, are incapable of asking coherent questions and certainly incapable of understanding basics like posting their device specifications and software configuration of any king. Totally unaware the questions they're asking answers to are beyond the scope of normal users and even some engineers. Most of them aren't concerned with things like color in reality either. None of them have the faintest of clues of what a color managed workflow even looks like, and are then sometimes baffled why their prints look nothing like what they saw on their uncalibrated TN-panel screens (for the 10% of them that printed any of their digital images ever). The majority in basically everything have accepted convenience-over-all-else. But I guess when your clientele will accept whatever - it somewhat makes sense.

Noted, I've enlarged the font on newer videos as well, but perhaps not enough. May need to bump it up some more. Thanks for the actual useful feedback.

Yes, it's like learning latin for the first time!

I think most any technical field is like that. There is vocabulary to learn that makes some more sense later. That being said "sigmoid" is named after a mathematical curve so it's probably not something many photographers have run into. "Filmic with less buttons" takes up too much room in the UI though. :)

I have never heard of that before. But I do not get heavy handed with corrections. I suspect a tool like RGB Curves could be used along with a parametric or drawn mask to accomplish adjusting skin tones like that. I usually just color correct with a ColorChecker and then go into color grading.

In the Retouch module, the section 'Wavelets decompose' may be useful. I forget the functionality when I have been away from it for a while. You'll have to study the manual. Boris Hejducovik has a very good demonstration in his video Darktable Episode 59, starting at 20:00, about how to manage skin tones.

Yes it's for the particular lighting and scene. I would think you'd need a large variety of shots in many different lighting scenarios to build your own model.

No problem, yeah it's buried in the manual!

Click on the gear icon in the top right hand side of the new window and under GUI Options there's a general heading. The first option there is interface language. Change it to whatever language you like there. You'll need to restart the application for the changes to take effect.

@@LeanderHuttonPhoto Thank you!!

It means you done goofed-up, obviously. Because, when I followed the instructions. Myyy picture exported exactly as the gentleman said it would. It’s not rocket science.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the decibel levels of this gentlemen’s youtube tutorial. I guarantee it’s one of two things: 1. Your volume is turned down too low on whatever device you’re trying to use OR 2. The hair from that mullet of yours is probably getting stuck in your ear canals.🧐

I haven't used DigiKam in quite a long time. I just organize my photos on disk these days.

Not that I'm aware and that might due to the fact that the "original" settings can be rather customized in Darktable. For example I have it apply a per camera base curve and change the demosiac algorithm from default for Bayer pattern cameras. The quickest way to do that would be to make a snapshot before your edits that you can jump back to I think.

Caleb - look at the snapshot function. Not quite a one button press but you can move a slider over the image to get a before and after.

@@philsmith774 Sounds very helpful.... Where is the slider function though?? Thanks! :)

@@calebdowers1594 This link will do a brilliant job of explaining snapshot. Subscribe to his channel as its very educational - kzbin.info/www/bejne/baGQgpRnaN6fhKc

The resync replaces the xmp file on the remote location with the one from your local drive. So if you edited the file on the remote location (say from another machine) after doing the create local copy operation that would be overwritten I would think.