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Crash when freeing a libraw_processd_image_i   15 weeks 3 days ago

The libraw_memmgr::free() is very simple, it just calls upper level ::free than forgets the pointer:

void free(void *ptr)
{
::free(ptr);
forget_ptr(ptr);
}

So, if your code crashes in ::free(), it should crash in LibRaw's free() too. For pointer allocated by ::malloc() there is no difference between LibRaw::free() and ::free().

I cannot reproduce this problem in my Windows enviroment (VS2008 SP1, Win7/x64).
Could you please describe your enviroment in more detail (VS2008 patch level, Windows version, may be sample code)?

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Crash when freeing a libraw_processd_image_i   15 weeks 3 days ago

I also encounter this problem.
In my project I link the libraw (I use Visual Studio). Everything works fine.
However if I want to free (using ::free(ptr)) the pointer returned by dcraw_make_mem_image(...) I get an exception
_CrtIsValiHeapPointer(pUserData) documented in dbgheap.c with
/*
* If this ASSERT fails, a bad pointer has been passed in. It may be
* totally bogus, or it may have been allocated from another heap.
* The pointer MUST come from the 'local' heap.
*/
_ASSERTE(_CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData));

I think the problem is caused that the lib is creating the memory, so only the lib itself is allowed to free it afterwards. The application does only seem to have rights to read the memory.
If I also make the free function public in class LibRaw it seems to work, but there should be a more elegant solution ;)

Regards Tobias

OpenMP problems compiling   15 weeks 5 days ago

Since LibRaw 0.9, the OpenMP pragmas are effective only on LibRaw compile time, not at apps compilation.

Crash when freeing a libraw_processd_image_i   15 weeks 5 days ago

the image is allocated by 'upper level' (system) malloc, not LibRaw's one:

libraw_processed_image_t *ret = (libraw_processed_image_t*)::malloc(sizeof(libraw_processed_image_t)+ds);

So, it should be free-ed by system free(), not LibRaw::free();

Please describe your enviroment in more details.

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   38 weeks 3 days ago

Looks like 640 and 1250 are 'software' ISO on your camera. So 1250 is shot at 1600, than values are divided by 1.25 or so.

It also looks like you've not subtracted black value (about 1000 on your camera).

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   38 weeks 3 days ago

Thank you very much for your help! I did some more "testing" today and set the exposure time to 5 seconds so I would basically get a white picture and calculated the maximum of each channel. This is what I got:

ISO R G B
400 15760 15761 15761
500 15760 15761 15761
640 12810 12811 12811
800 15760 15761 15761
1000 15760 15762 15760
1250 12810 12813 12810
1600 15764 15767 15763

Now at least I know what value I have to normalize with. I still have one technical question: Why are the values for 640 and 1250 different than the others?

bye, Peter

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   38 weeks 5 days ago

First. ph1_black is the data field for PhaseOne black data. It is not useful for any other formats.

Second. If you want to scale data up to saturation, you should scan for maximum value in image[] field, than scale as you want.
Also, for real image processing you should subtract black value first.

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   39 weeks 4 hours ago

Hey,

thank you very much for your answer. I implemented an averaging of entries for the fields top and left. Oddly, it is the same for ISO400 and ISO800 (1058). I am not sure if I understood something wrong, but I expected a much larger value to account for the difference in maximum pixel value for the ISO800 picture. My results so far are: The laserpointer is bright enough and the exposure time high enough to drive at least the green channel into saturation.
When I use the imgdata.color.maximum field, I get the value 15600 for ISO400 and for ISO800, which is about what I expected and not a problem for my application.
When I scan for the maximum value in any channel, I get 15760 for the ISO400 (close enough to 15600 I think) but only ~12811 for the ISO800. This is what I do not understand because masked_pixels buffer contain almost the same values.
Also, I tried to access the ph1_black but I think it is not allocated in my case, at least something like

rawProcessor.imgdata.masked_pixels.ph1_black[1][0]

threw an error. If the 12811 for ISO800 is the other maximum value as you suggested then it is a problem because when my application works, my goal is to not drive the channel into saturation but to use maybe 80% of the maximum saturation. Do you have any idea about why the black levels are the same and if the 12811 is the maximum value you suggested is used for high ISO settings or what I can do to solve this issue?

bye, Peter

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   39 weeks 17 hours ago

Yes, amplifier+ADC combo works this way. On my 5Dmk2 I've two different 'maximum' values, one for normal ISOs and one for 'High' ones.

Anyway, there is two different questions
- maximum possible value (2^(bit depth) minus dark current). This value is data format/camera dependend, you may rely on imgdata.color.maximum field
- maximum value for given shot. In general, you should scan entire image are to calculate it.

How do I get the "rawest" data possible?   39 weeks 1 day ago

So far I tried setting the following parameters, similar to unprocessed_raw.cpp:

OUT.document_mode=2;
OUT.output_bps=16;
OUT.user_flip=0;
OUT.no_auto_bright = 1;
OUT.filtering_mode=LIBRAW_FILTERING_NONE;

Of course I set these before calling open_file and unpack. In addition, the reason I found out about this was that I used two sets of pictures, one shot with ISO400 and one with ISO800 and basically illuminated a spot with a damped laserpointer (in a dark room). I wanted to calculate the exposure time that I need to saturate one of the channels. I noticed that the maximum value I could get for ISO400 was above 14500, while for the ISO800 I couldn't get the value above 13000 which doesn't make sense to me, since the wavelength of the laser didn't change and only the ISO setting was increased.

bye, Peter

Dan Margulis on RAW module   42 weeks 10 hours ago

Good evening Dan!
I'm a moderator of Russian CG Forum Arttower.ru. Could you give us the permisson to publish the Russian translation of this article (http://www.libraw.su/articles/raw-module.html) on our site?

How to obtain bit depth?   43 weeks 2 days ago

You may rely on imgdata.color.maximum field.

cin / stdin   46 weeks 6 days ago

LibRaw need to seek to arbitrary position in input stream. So, there is no way to read from stdin.

You may implement you own LibRaw_datastreeam class with full buffering.

Random And Groundless Thoughts On Color Control In a Raw Convertor   1 year 1 week ago

http://www.digitalcolour.org/toolbox.htm

Dr Green has matlab code for CIECAM02.

As for profiles. There is not a profile as such. You need to determine your own cameras RGB to XYZ response. If you have a D70s I could send you some matrixes that I made earlier. I am in the process of publishing a paper on the subject. Ill keep you posted.

Random And Groundless Thoughts On Color Control In a Raw Convertor   1 year 1 week ago

Looks very promising.

Is there some code (plus profile) to play with?

Random And Groundless Thoughts On Color Control In a Raw Convertor   1 year 1 week ago

Hi

I successfully applied CIECAM02 to a RAW imaging workflow. The main problem was to identify the adopted white from scene colorimerty as an input to CIECAM02. I ended up using the cameras white balance for ease in order to complete the experiment. The scene illumination was calculated from ISO and Exposure and gave favorable results. The main part of the process was to characterise the camera using a double monochromator and calculate the cameras spectral response. This was then used to determine the device RGB to XYZ matrix by reducing errors in JMH space for different values of La and white point.

The resulting matrices were used to transform RAW RGB to XYZ according to scene white and La and then passed through CIECAM02.
The internal coordinates used were JMH and output to standard sRGB viewing conditions through the reverse CIECAM02.

I got some pretty good results, (although maybe not appearance perfect) compared to the sRGB JPEG produced by the Nikon D70s.

DCRAW and Matlab used for computation.

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 3 weeks ago

The problem is in MacOS X fseek() call. It takes 32-bit offset (long int). There is fseeko() function which takes off_t offset and so will work with files larger than 2Gb.

The quick fix:
in libraw/libraw_datastream.h change:
return substream?substream->seek(o,whence):fseek(f,o,whence);
to
return substream?substream->seek(o,whence):fseeko(f,o,whence);

This will break compatibility with Windows (no fseeko) and, possible, Linux. I'll prepare more universal solution (with #ifdef) today or tomorrow (to appear in 0.8-Beta5)

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 3 weeks ago

There is two news, good one and not-so-good :)

1. Frame offset is stored as 64 bit in this format, so there is no *theoretical* problems.

2. There is two possible sources of problems under Mac OS X:
a) one possible source is 32-bit off_t type (i.e. some special compilation flags are needed because 64-bit offsets are possible)
b) FILE * interface under Mac OS X does not support large files.

I've MacBook with MacOS 10.5 on hands, so will continue investigations. Hope, I'll find problem source today.

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 3 weeks ago

Oh, sorry.

I've downloaded this file several weeks ago, than make LibRaw 0.8-b4, than forgot about file.

Will work with it tomorrow.

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 3 weeks ago

gentle ping....

M

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 6 weeks ago

Hi, many apologies for the long delay, I got food poisoning after the last post,
and I've been trying to catch up ever since.
I've put a test file on http://www.modern-industry.com/test.cine Its about 49MB.

Mike

Random And Groundless Thoughts On Color Control In a Raw Convertor   1 year 7 weeks ago

It is the same case with the brightness contrast: for the majority of street scenes, there is an empirical desire to increase the brightness. This effect was measured by Stevens and Stevens 45 years ago, and the results can be quantitatively used. The reason why you need to increase the contrast of the printouts is the same: you look at them at a much dimmer and duller light than the one that was present during the shooting and presumed by the viewer.

Sorry, link to warez site deleted by LibRaw admin

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 8 weeks ago

You say '16Gb' ?

For many file types data_offset of frame data is read as 32-bit integer (via get4()). So, maximum frame offset is 2Gb.

To check this I need some sample with several frames. I don't need full 16-Gb file multi-multi-frame file, but file with 3-4 frames will be enough.

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 8 weeks ago

I'm afraid it may not be very easy to repeat, as the file I'm using
is a .cine file of around 16G! I know this sounds an extreme case, but
some professional movie cameras shoot raw...

I didn't use any special switches, just something of the form of

dcraw_emu -s 700 mytestfile.cine

I'm afraid that I'm going to be very busy for the next couple of days, but
a good experiment I might perform would be to create a file with very small frames, so I
can find out if the frame count or the file size is the issue. That might
also create a test case that can be loaded via the Internet.

Mike

Limit on number of images in file?   1 year 8 weeks ago

Could you please describe how to repeat the problem with dcraw_emu? What command-line switches used?