| TLDR; lies. Kindly substantiate your claims. DT has a clone tool. It's part of the retouch tool.[1]
Which is very powerful and allows way more than just cloning. It is also non-destructive, like anything in DT. DT has camera profiles, new cameras get added regularly. You can also create them yourself if you have access to a color checker using a built-in tool.[2] DT has tons of lens correction profiles. Basically anything you find in lensfun. If your lens is missing, lensfun has a service where you send images and they send you the calibration data back and add it to to their database.[3] I shoot (often exotic) manual glass most of the time. If someone tells me DT is lacking in this regard it's a good indicator for me they have no clue what they are talking about or never used the app seriously. UI: it could see improvement in terms of parameter exposure (no novice/simple mode) and ranges (some sliders go from 0..1, others from 0..100%) but otherwise? What in the UI is prehistoric? The catalog part of DT is also great. i.e. when your catalog is on a slow network or cloud drive DT can automatically cache RAWs locally and send back the XMPs with the edits only. Caveat: I regularly get paid for photography work (it's not fulltime but give I worked professionally in blockbuster VFX for two decades I think I qualify). I do all my processing in DT. If I have to do compositing work beyond that I export to Fusion. [1] https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/module-referenc... [2] https://pixls.us/articles/profiling-a-camera-with-darktable-... [3] https://wilson.bronger.org/calibration |
I agree with the GP that the UI makes it practically unusable. Prehistoric, and I'd be surprised if this can be used by anyone as-is. I'd take a look at the features, but while it's importing my catalog I can't open any subfolders to look at images already imported. Once I click open my top-level Pictures folder, it closes it again after half a second.