From 7216c8589afeb0954830028e61467a3f48f5d0a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Baldwin <33934381+bitshiftza@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:47:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] LR-EDIT-COLOR-TEMP: raw-parity.md describes Kelvin WB for matrix cameras (#730) --- docs/raw-parity.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/raw-parity.md b/docs/raw-parity.md index ca5cbcfdc..a3c9c6300 100644 --- a/docs/raw-parity.md +++ b/docs/raw-parity.md @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ checked, and Canon, the largest bucket, is the weakest of the big four. | Camera Matching looks | 481 models (plus phone-maker looks) | none (the per-file JPEG fit imitates the camera's own look) | | Creative profiles | Adobe Color, Portrait, Landscape, Vivid, Monochrome… | our own looks (Color, Neutral, Vivid, Landscape, Portrait, Monochrome) | | DCP / dual-illuminant model | ✅ | dual-illuminant DNG colour (ColorMatrix / ForwardMatrix 1-2, CameraCalibration, AnalogBalance), HueSatMap, LookTable, ProfileToneCurve; external `.dcp` never loaded (clean-room) | -| White balance in Kelvin | ✅ for every model | absolute Kelvin only where matrices exist; per-file fits give relative WB (#296, #730) | +| White balance in Kelvin | ✅ for every model | absolute Kelvin where the camera has colour matrices (its own, or one of the 52 spectral rows), also for files whose look is a per-file fit (#730); other raws keep the relative scale (#296) | **How far the default rendering is from Adobe's** (CIE ΔE; measured where stated): @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ checked, and Canon, the largest bucket, is the weakest of the big four. desaturated), the largest group of open core-path issues. **Colour score ~35%** (estimated): most decoded files start close to the camera's own look (ΔE ~5), -about 10% start far off (ΔE ~18), nothing is calibrated, Kelvin WB is missing for fitted cameras, and +about 10% start far off (ΔE ~18), nothing is calibrated, Kelvin WB is missing for fitted cameras without colour matrices, and the distance to Adobe Standard is unmeasured. In the readiness numbers this becomes a colour factor of ×0.85 for a working photographer (they correct colour by hand, at a cost) and ×0.75 for the essentials user (the default look is what they keep). @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ Beyond decoding: | Gap | Hours | Needs | |---|---:|---| -| Measured colour calibration for the ~60 popular bodies, Kelvin WB, render-fidelity suite against Lightroom | 80–150 | chart shots per camera (a human with cameras) or licensable measured data | +| Measured colour calibration for the ~60 popular bodies, Kelvin WB for cameras without matrices, render-fidelity suite against Lightroom | 80–150 | chart shots per camera (a human with cameras) or licensable measured data | | Lens profile database of our own (fitting tools, data format, top 100 lenses), maker-note vignetting / CA | 40–80 | calibration shots (a human with lenses) | | Demosaic and highlight quality measured against Lightroom; X-Trans AI denoise | 15–30 | | | **Total RAW** | **255–480 h** (decoding list above 120–220 h; ~60% parallelizes) | |