Scarab Darkroom

Scarab Darkroom is a fast and easy to use digital camera raw file converter for Windows. It supports most raw format capable cameras from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung, and Sony.


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(current version: 2.28, released 25th of May 2020)

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Requirements:

4 gigabytes of RAM or more, OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics chip, 64 bit Windows 7 / 8 / 10

 

Supported cameras:

Canon EOS 1D, 1D Mark IV, 1Ds, 1Ds Mark II, 1D X, 1D X Mark II, 5D, 5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 6D, 6D Mark II, 7D, 7D Mark II, 10D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 60D, 70D, 88D, 80D, 100D/Rebel SL1, 300D/Digital Rebel, 350D/XT, 400D/XTi, 450D/XSi, 500D/T1i, 550D/T2i, 600D/T3i, 650D/T4i, 700D, 750D, 760D, 800D, 1000D/XS, 1100D/T3, 1200D, 1300D, M, M3, M5, M10, M100, Powershot Pro 1, S45, S50, S70, S90, S95, S100, SX1 IS, G2, G3, G6, G9, G9 X, G9 X II, G10, G11, G12, G15, G1X

Fujifilm F550EXR, F600EXR, HS10/HS11, X10, X100

Nikon 1 AW1, 1 J1, 1 J4, 1 V1, 1 V2, 1 V3, Coolpix A, D1, D1H, D2H, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D3X, D4, D5, D40, D40X, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D500, D600, D610, D700, D750, D3000, D3100, D3200, D3300, D3400, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D5600, D7000, D7200, D7500, Df, E8400, P330, P6000, P7000, P7100, P7700, P7800

Olympus E-1, E-3, E-5, E-5 Mark II, E-30, E-300, E-400, E-410, E-420, E-450, E-500, E-510, E-520,  E-600, E-620, E-M1, EM1 II, E-M5, E-M10, E-M10 Mark II, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, E-PL1, E-PL1s, E-PL2, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL6, E-PL7, E-PL8, E-PL9, E-PM1, E-PM2, SH-2, SP-350, SP-510 UZ, SP-550 UZ, SP-560 UZ, SP-570 UZ, C5050Z, C8080WZ, TG-4, XZ-1

Panasonic G1, G2, G3, G5, G8, G10, G80, G81, G85, GF1, GF2, GF3, GF5, GF6, GH1, GH2, GH3, GH4, GH5, GM1, GX1, GX7, GX8, GX9, L10, LF1, LX3, LX5, FZ18, FZ28, FZ38, FZ35, FZ150, FZ200, LX7

Pentax K-01, K-3, K-3 II, K-5, K-5 II, K-5 II s, K-7, K10D, K20D, K-30, K50, K100D, K100D Super, K110D, K200D, K500, K-m/K2000D, K-r, K-S1, K-S2, K-x, *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DL2, *ist DS, *ist DS2, MX-1, Q, Q7, Q10, QS1

Samsung EX1, GX-1, GX-1S, GX-1L, GX-20, NX10, NX11, NX20, NX30, NX200, NX210, NX300, NX1000, NX1100, Pro 815

Sony α7, α7 III, α9, α100, α200, α230, α290, α300, α330, α350, α380, α390, α450, α500, α550, α560, α580, α700, α850, α900, α3000, α3500, α5000, α51000, α6000, α6300, NEX-3, NEX-3N, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5T, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, SLT-α33, SLT-α35, SLT-α37, SLT-α55, SLT-α57, SLT-α58, SLT-α65, SLT-α77, SLT-α99, DSC-R, DSC-V3, QX1, RX0, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 II, RX10 IV, RX100, RX100 II, RX100 III, RX100 IV, RX100 VI

 

Version history:



2.22-2.23

- Added support for Nikon  D5, D500, and Olympus E-M10 Mark II

- Improved colour rendition with recovery (ie. less desaturation)

- Tweaked colour temperature slider

- Potentially fixed a rarely occurring glitch with sliders

- Some information text is now broken onto multiple lines if it doesn't fit on the screen

- Slightly improved noise filter

- ISO is now displayed as "unknown" for some raw files, where the program doesn't know how to get this data.

- Changed the crop tool window

- Disabled double-click on split tone sliders

- Set default vibrance setting and black level to 0

- Removed support for X-Trans sensors for now

- Other small changes

 

2.21

- Fixed a memory leak, which could lead to a crash after going through hundreds of pictures

- Fixed the crop tool window on Windows 8

- A new experimental demosaic method (can be chosen in the Options menu and is called "Hybrid")

- Small performance optimizations

- Tweaks to highlight recovery

- Changed "Automatic" resize mode to use Lánczos filtering for reduction (sharper results)

- Fixed edge filtering problems of the thumbnail display

- A button in the preferences for manually clearing the thumbnail cache

- Potentially fixed the noise filtered version of the image occasionally not being displayed after the noise filter finished (note: the noise filtered version is still only shown for zoom >=50%)

- Potentially better resilience from damaged raw files

- Fixed purple highlights on Olympus E-3, XZ-1

- Support has been added for: Nikon 1 V3, 1 J4, D3300, D5500, D7200, Olympus E-PL6, E-PL7, E-M10, E-M5Mark II, SH-2, Pentax K-S1, Samsung NX30

- Lots of small changes under the hood

 

2.20

- Improved demosaic algorithms (Scarab and Scarab X2 methods)

- Added support for Olympus OM-D E-M1

- Potentially fixed a bug with the noise filter not being applied on rare occasions

 

2.19

- Fixed an issue with the default demosaic algorithm, which resulted in poor image quality with some cameras. It affected most Pentax models, and some older Nikon and Olympus cameras.

- Fixed purple highlights on Canon EOS 700D.

- Multi-threaded PPG demosaic algorithm.

- Fixed flipped thumbnails on (the officially not supported) Leica M9.

 

2.18

- Fixed problem with flipped thumbnails with a few camera models (bug introduced in v2.15)

- Fixed problem with highlights on FujiFilm X-E2

- Added support for FujiFilm X100S (and X-E2 is now also on the list of officially supported models)

- Minor performance tweaks

 
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