The boot recipe was DEFAULT_RECIPES[0], so every file that landed — NEF
or JPEG — came in with exposure +2 (+0.5 EV), contrast +1, saturation -1,
6300K / tint +2, highlight -2, clarity +2, grain +4 and the classic-neg
filter already on. On APACHAI-20160215-357.NEF that read as pink skin and
blown highlights, and it made a correct decode look like a decode bug.
Develop itself was fine: 179.0/168.2/171.2 against the embedded preview's
178.2/167.1/170.7.
Boot is now BASE_RECIPE — no filter, all knobs default, the same look
COMPARE splits against. A session left by the old boot holds that preset
verbatim, which was never the visitor's pick, so it is dropped; anything
the visitor actually touched moves the stored object off the exact
fingerprint and is kept.
Render bytes, same 1600x1068 view of the JPEG (R/G/B means):
source file 170.7 / 159.1 / 163.1
before 194.7 / 178.0 / 177.2
after 169.5 / 158.5 / 162.0
NEF render stage: 202.4 / 186.3 / 185.4 -> 177.9 / 167.3 / 169.9
Output is byte-identical to the old neutral render (md5 a3932746...),
while a clicked chip (classic-neg-default) and a tweaked session both
still restore their own bytes.
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