LibRaw is deliberately kept out of white balance and tone here, so a RAW opened in the studio lands on the neutral demosaic — while the JPEG on the back of the camera carried the body's own rendering. cameraMatch.ts holds that difference as one 3x3 per body, fitted offline against the camera's own preview of the same frame and applied in the develop shader right after the sRGB encode. Measured on held-out blocks, mean CIEDE2000 against the camera preview: GR III 5.99 -> 4.28 X100V 8.19 -> 4.22 GR II 11.68 -> 9.73 X100S 7.41 -> 7.27 X-T3 9.03 -> 6.12 The matrix is fitted luma-preserving and the shader holds that exactly, so the profile moves colour and never exposure: a preview that came out dark stays dark, by design. What is left over is largely high-frequency (sharpening, noise reduction, demosaic) — the error keeps falling as the blocks grow. The fits are weak evidence on their own. Validation on colour charts came out poor: the daylight chart is an Adobe DNG Converter export that aligns to the body's own develop at only 0.785 correlation and gets worse with the profile applied, and the tungsten chart is a different illuminant entirely. The honest claims are the self-fit numbers above and that the X100S — whose cast was small to begin with — barely moves. Verified end to end through the real develop: an unfitted body (Sony ILME-FX30) develops byte-for-byte identically to before, and reading the matrix back out of each profiled develop recovers the fitted one. ponytail: one matrix per body, no tone curve and no 3D LUT (a curve on top measured 2% better and needs a spline plus array uniforms). The match is applied to the 8-bit band the develop already produces — give develop 16-bit output if a profile ever has to grade rather than match.
RecipesCam web — self-contained stack
A Docker-hosted web build of RecipesCam. Everything it needs is in this folder: move it to another machine, run two commands, and the app is up. It does not need the React Native project around it.
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build
# → http://localhost:8090
What runs where
| Service | Image | Role |
|---|---|---|
frontend |
nginx:1.27-alpine (built by frontend/Dockerfile) |
Static SPA + /api/ reverse proxy |
api |
node:22-slim (built by backend/Dockerfile) |
Accounts + saved recipes, SQLite on ./data |
frontend resolves api through Docker's embedded DNS and proxies /api/* to
it — that is why the API container is named api and why it is not published on
the host. Only ${WEB_PORT:-8090} is exposed.
Photos never leave the browser. The CanvasKit render pipeline (grade, frame, watermarks, JPEG encode) runs in the visitor's tab; the API only stores recipes as JSON.
Layout
docker-compose.yml the stack
.env.example WEB_PORT
data/ SQLite (created on first run, gitignored)
backend/ Fastify + better-sqlite3 API, own Dockerfile
frontend/ Vite + React + CanvasKit SPA, own Dockerfile + nginx.conf
shared/ vendored copies of the app's types + utils (see below)
src/engine/ skiaShim.ts (CanvasKit) + exportEngine.ts (render pipeline)
+ session.ts (localStorage/IndexedDB studio persistence)
Vendored files
frontend/shared/{types/index.ts,utils/*.ts} are byte-identical copies of
src/types/index.ts and ten src/utils/*.ts files from the React Native
project (@shopify/react-native-skia is aliased to src/engine/skiaShim.ts in
vite.config.ts + tsconfig.json, so those files compile unchanged):
cinemaShader colorUtils defaultRecipes exifWrite frameUtils jpegDpi
paramDefs recipeShare skiaImage toneShader.
The landing page needs no CDN: frontend/public/assets/fonts/*.woff2 are the
seven self-hosted faces behind the three font groups the Themes menu offers
(Plus Jakarta Sans / Inter / JetBrains Mono, Fraunces / Be Vietnam Pro /
Courier Prime, Be Vietnam Pro / Space Mono — all SIL OFL, pulled from Google
Fonts, vietnamese + latin + latin-ext subsets), and
frontend/public/assets/samples/s*.jpg are the six placeholder negatives the
film strip, preset tester and QR card show (swap them for real graded stills
whenever we have them). Its one foreign request is the QR image from
api.qrserver.com, which degrades to an empty slot offline.
When the app changes one of them, copy it back in — the renderer is only "parity" for as long as these stay in sync:
cd <repo>/docker/frontend/shared/utils
cp <repo>/src/utils/<name>.ts .
Operations
docker compose logs -f api # API log
docker compose restart api # after backend/src changes (rebuild: --build)
docker compose down # stop; ./data survives
Backup is the ./data folder — that is the whole database.
Checks
curl -s http://localhost:8090/api/health # {"ok":true}
curl -sI http://localhost:8090/ # 200, index.html
Then open the UI, drop a photo in, and confirm the preview shows the picture and
EXPORT downloads a JPEG that opens. The preview going solid black while the
export still reports a plausible size is the one failure mode worth knowing: it
means the CanvasKit GPU surfaces lost their shared GrDirectContext (see
frontend/src/engine/skiaShim.ts), and with no GPU the raster fallback renders
the same pipeline correctly, just slower.