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I got tired of in depth fiddly editing and wrote Filmulator to minimize the decision-making and streamline editing. I rarely spend more than 20-30 seconds per i
by CarVac 7mo ago
I got tired of in depth fiddly editing and wrote Filmulator to minimize the decision-making and streamline editing. I rarely spend more than 20-30 seconds per image.
You get a clean, basic look, no weird colors or overly creative "looks", but with adjustability and great highlight handling that JPEG doesn't get you.
https://filmulator.org https://filmulator.org
The current builds there are quite old but we've got new ones coming.
- sanitycheck 7mo agoThis is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.
- jbellis 7mo agoI'm interested if you're GPU-native and actually fast with my a7 IV raw images. Edit: oh wow, this is much older than I thought. Never mind. :)
- CarVac 7mo agoIt's not GPU-native… that's a goal but it'll certainly take some time. Back when I was last working heavily on it there commonly wasn't enough vram but now there should be on most machines. 33 megapixels is not a lot. I'd consider that fast on my 9800X3D gaming machine but moderate on my older 2700X dev machine. But of course, what you consider fast depends on your computer and your expectations. Zooming and panning is much faster on Filmulator than most other software because it caches full-res images throughout much of the pipeline. On my gaming monitor I can rapidly zoom in and out at a buttery-smooth 240Hz refresh rate. But actually changing settings is a bit slower. The earliest settings are the slowest to respond since they only operate on full resolution raw data, but they're non-creative, technical decisions on highlight recovery and demosaicing and such that do not need tweaking. Additionally, you get early feedback from these in the form of early-pipeline histograms interspersed among the tools, helping you tune these settings quickly. Noise reduction adds a lot of processing time but once you figure that out the full-res image gets cached and doesn't interfere with later steps. It has fast (~100ms) screen-resolution response to sliders in the filmulation tools mid-pipeline but it'll take a second or two for the full resolution image to process. Late pipeline editing (post-filmulation) is near instant even for the full resolution. So is it fast? Yes and no. But it tries to always be responsive and provide useful information as quickly as possible.
- TehCorwiz 7mo agoThis looks right up my alley. Does it properly support true monochrome raw DNG files? I.E., cameras that don't have a bayer filter and don't require a debayering pass. I'm shooting a Pentax K3 Mark III Monochrome, although Leica has a couple true monochrome cameras and there are services that will de-bayer cameras and modify the firmware to achieve similar ends.
- CarVac 7mo agoYes, it properly supports monochrome DNG and disables (and hides) tools that are not applicable such as demosaicing, CA correction, highlight recovery, white balance, etc. I didn't know such firmware hacking was available. I'd been waiting for the GR Monochrome for years but it's a bit expensive for me.
- TehCorwiz 7mo agoThanks for the quick reply! I'm sold. It's punching way above its weight class with those features. Have to try this out tonight.
- TehCorwiz 7mo agoI don't know if the firmware mods are public but I saw one conversion service offer it when I was researching. If I can find the link I'll post it here this evening.
- buildbot 7mo agoAlso there are the Phase One Achromatic backs. Which Lightroom does not even support :(
- CarVac 7mo agoI need to fix Phase One support in Filmulator. LibRaw has some additional processing steps required that I didn't manage to figure out last time I worked on it.
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- NanoCoaster 7mo agoOh, great to see this on HN! I found Filmulator a few years ago and used it for most of my raw photography (which, admittedly, isn't a lot) and found it amazing. Exactly what I wanted. Streamlined, easy to get into, fun. And I really like the way my pictures come out at the end. Thank you for your work :)
- CarVac 7mo agoI'm always glad to hear that people are enjoying Filmulator. I don't track downloads or anything so I have no idea how many people out there use it.
- 72deluxe 7mo agoThank you for this. I downloaded the program, but am I right in that it does some processing on the RAW files as it imports them so that they're effectively in a mostly "finished" state? At the moment I'm using SilkyPix for my Lumix photos and NX Studio for my Nikon photos, and then occasionally using RawTherapee and Darktable and also occasionally ART. I then sometimes attempt to use gmic on the finished JPEG or Snapseed on my Android phone for more ambience and sharpness. I'm finding I'm spending absolutely hours on editing all the photos I take. And they don't even look that great when I finish with them, mainly through my lack of skill. I find the sharpening in silkypix to be very good.