Canon's SensorInfo left border is not where light starts: on every corpus
body 10-36 columns left of it already hold image (EOS 6D: masked columns
0-70, border 84), and the black level was averaged over all of them. The
6D read 2591 instead of 2047 (4 % of the range), so CR2s rendered dark with
crushed shadows; 40D +141, 5DS R +131, 5D Mark II +73. The masked run is
now measured from the data: columns whose mean stays within 1/256 of the
range of the leftmost columns', minus a two-column margin.
Against Lightroom Classic (EOS 6D still life, 2000 px, ΔE00): base 7.63 ->
5.23 (p95 24.7 -> 11.3); mean over 86 edit variants abs 9.13 -> 6.19,
effect 3.09 -> 2.75.
RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 23.
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The ORF decoder supplies the as-shot white balance (ImageProcessing
WB_RBLevels) and no colour matrix, like ARW, NEF, RW2, RAF, CR2/CR3, PEF
and SRW, but ORF was left out of camera_preview::file_local_look and the
catalog's relative_wb, so it rendered with the neutral fallback matrix:
flat, grey and dark. It now gets the same guarded fit to its camera JPEG
and white balance relative to the as-shot look. Corpus (held-out RMS
against the fallback, all accepted): E-1 0.126 -> 0.014, E-400 0.087 ->
0.022, XZ-2 0.061 -> 0.023; compressed ORFs still open from their preview.
Against Lightroom Classic (CC0 E-1 kit, 2000 px, ΔE00): unedited render
11.25 -> 8.30; mean over 86 variants abs 12.10 -> 9.48, effect 3.44 ->
2.80. Every other kit's unedited render is byte-identical.
RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 23.
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Sensor-clipped pixels are rebuilt at raw decode. The tone map rolls them off to
white at Neutral, so any colour they carry shows only when Highlights, a negative
Exposure or Whites darkens them. They took colour from the nearest unclipped pixel
(dark foliage, lens fringes along branches, pixels demosaiced from clipped samples),
left two clipped channels at their white-balance-scaled clip levels (red or pink),
and were neutral only in camera RGB, not after the colour model (a look fitted to
the camera's JPEG, a camera profile).
- highlight::reconstruct_with: chromaticity only from bright unclipped content away
from edges and from the clip, through a normalised push-pull pyramid; a neutral
estimate blended in where reliable content is scarce at every scale up to a
quarter of the long edge, applied only as far as the pixel lies past the nearest
near-clip unclipped pixels (so a surface still runs into clipping without a
step); clipped pairs keep the estimate's ratio at their clip floors; partly
clipped pixels fade into the clipped neutral on their way from the first channel
clipping to the last; fully clipped pixels become the colour model's neutral.
Pixels without a clipped channel are left exactly as they were.
- engine: the decode colour step as CameraColourModel, with clipped_white, which
keeps the camera's neutral for nearly singular or implausible models.
- Tests in raw (continuity along a ramp through every clip, also as lines 1 to 16
rows thick with no reliable colour, on canvases 32 to 1024 rows), engine
(pipeline renders at Highlights -100, #523's edit and Exposure -2 through the
first clip, over the same sweep; a CC0 ILCE-7RM4 corpus file added to
RAW_SAMPLES) and the GPU equivalence suite.
- Render cache version 27.
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High Efficiency NEFs (HE / HE★, Z 8, Z 9, Z 6III, Z f) keep compression
34713 but carry a JPEG XS-based codestream (SOC + CAP, FF10 FF50) and no
maker-note 0x0096 table. They fell through to "Nikon compressed NEF
without a linearization table", so the Preview only notice gave Z f users
no hint why their raw wasn't decoded or that Lossless compressed NEFs work.
Detect the codestream before asking for the table and report "Nikon High
Efficiency NEF" with the workaround. Add a synthetic regression test, CC0
Z f HE + Lossless samples to the corpus (raw.pixls.us) with a corpus test,
and list HE NEF among the format gaps in parity.md and ROADMAP.md.
No decoder: the format has no public specification and the existing
decoders (LibRaw, rawler) are LGPL and derived from Nikon's binaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011bbmJTxYJyYqKfNH8uXRC6
C5060WZ, C7070WZ, SP-510UZ, SP-550UZ, SP-565UZ and SP-570UZ files say
uncompressed 12-bit with many strips whose byte counts sum to exactly
width x height x 1.5. main refused them because the 12-bit branch wanted a
single strip, so they fell to "Olympus compressed ORF" and opened
preview-only. The samples are packed MSB-first, the strips hold two fields
(even output rows, then odd ones) with one gap at the seam, and the last row
of the second field sits right after the last strip. Accepted only when all of
that holds exactly. CFA comes from the Exif tag, white balance from maker-note
entries 0x1017/0x1018, black 0. RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 27 (adjust at merge).
A DNG can state a white level the sensor never reaches (an iPhone 15 Pro Max Bayer DNG states 4095 but clips at 3567), so clipped highlights were not recognised and white balance tinted them magenta. On decode, samples that form a plateau clearly below the white level, with nothing above it, are raised to the white level. RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 25 (needs adjusting at merge).
Lightroom Classic 15.6 imports an XMP packet's channel curves only when it holds
ToneCurvePV2012 and all three of ToneCurvePV2012Red/Green/Blue; any partial set
(master + one or two channels, channels without the master) imports without
channel curves. #416 read them whenever the master curve was present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fitted with `lightcraft-cli calibrate` to 125 usable ILCE-7CR ARWs (of 131,
September 2025 to September 2026, Standard creative style) and their
in-camera JPEGs; aggregate colour statistics only.
Without it, 8 of the 131 photos fail the fit gates and open with the
neutral matrix (dE76 6-26 against the camera JPEG). On 26 withheld photos
(profile fitted to the other 105) mean dE76 goes 4.07 -> 3.29 and both
withheld rejections are accepted (26.0 -> 6.1, 6.2 -> 5.5); the 24
withheld photos whose own fit was accepted are about unchanged (12
improve, mean 3.06 -> 3.08, worst regression 1.8). With the final profile
all 131 are accepted. The nine public raw.pixls.us ILCE-7CR codings stay
accepted (mean 1.59 -> 1.99).
A corpus test checks the public lossless-L sample's fit keeps exactly the
built-in profile's matrix and table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The YCbCr M coding's pedestal is corrected separately (#535, item 3), so
this test no longer depends on which change lands first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three CC0 raw.pixls.us files of one ILCE-7CR (61 MP) scene: lossless
compressed L and M (subsampled YCbCr) and compressed ARW2. A raw corpus
test pins model, colour-filter layout, black level, white level, as-shot
gains and default crop, and checks that the lossless and compressed
mosaics agree inside the crop (green block correlation 0.9976). An engine
corpus test checks each gets a fitted camera look, not the neutral
fallback. All nine public codings decode and fit (mean dE76 1.59 against
their camera JPEGs).
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Brandon Thomas