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DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.6.1 released We’re proud to announce the bug-fix release of darktable, 5.6.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.6.1 .

DarktableSoftwareMeet the new AI tools in darktable 5.6 darktable 5.6 ships its first AI features: an AI object mask that turns a single click into a vector mask around any subject, and a neural restore module for ML-based denoise and upscale.

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.6.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.6.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.6.0 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.4.1 released We’re proud to announce the bug-fix release of darktable, 5.4.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.4.1 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.4.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.4.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.4.0 .

December 21, 2025

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.4 - A Simple Beginner Workflow and Interactive Walkthrough This is a beginner-friendly and simple workflow for developing photos in darktable 5.4 using some new tools made available in this version.

December 17, 2025

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.2.1 released We’re proud to announce the new bug-fix release of darktable, 5.2.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.2.1 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.2.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.2.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.2.0 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.0.1 released We’re proud to announce the new bug-fix release of darktable, 5.0.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.1 .

February 12, 2025

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 5.0.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0 .

December 21, 2024

DarktableSoftwareHow do I ... in darktable 5.x? Users new to darktable who have experience with other raw developers may have trouble figuring out how to do various tasks as a result of different names or workflows in darktable compared to their…

December 20, 2024

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.8.1 released We’re proud to announce the new corrective release of darktable, 4.8.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.8.1 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.8.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.8.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.8.0 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.6.1 released We’re proud to announce the new corrective release of darktable, 4.6.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.6.1 .

February 17, 2024

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.6.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.6.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.6.0 .

December 21, 2023

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.4.2 released We’re proud to announce the new corrective release of darktable, 4.4.2! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.4.2 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.4.1 released We’re proud to announce the new corrective release of darktable, 4.4.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.4.1 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.4.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.4.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.4.0 .

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.2.1 released We’re proud to announce the new bug fix release of darktable, 4.2.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.2.1 .

February 21, 2023

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.2.0 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.2.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.2.0 .

December 21, 2022

DarktableSoftwaredarktable 4.0.1 released We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.0.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.0.1 .

September 17, 2022

DarktableSoftwarefaq New Users General Linux Flatpak Windows Mac Very Old Versions New Users ¶ Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative? ¶ Yes and no.

September 20, 2017

DarktableSoftwarescreenshots Click on a image to get it in full resolution. darktable’s lighttable mode showing a collection. Notice how the collection module (left panel) is used to narrow down a bunch of images by using…

September 20, 2017

DarktableSoftwaremeta This is a meta page about this website and building it. Pat David created this page for notes about building the site. Hugo We’re using Hugo to create a static website.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo