Hi Brian: You mentioned dynamic range. A few years ago I spent some time trying to take HDR photos and even went as far as stacking. It turns out that the Nikon D300s has internal pre processed HDR and post procedded HDR, the pre process works pretty well . . . But then found a far superior way, using RAW (NEF in the case of Nikon) files. Once you have selected NEF as the output file format you then have the option of changing the default 12 bits per color channel to 14 bits per color channel. Since the default .jpg file format is limited to 8 bits per color channel that's an improvement of 6 bits and since each bit is a stop that's the same as a 6 stop increase in dynamic range!! I've read that it's possible to turn of the Nikon noise reduction using their software but have not tried doing that. http://www.prc68.com/I/DigitalPhotography201StackingImages.shtml#HDR http://www.prc68.com/I/Astrophotography.html http://www.prc68.com/I/Nikon.shtml Mail_Attachment -- Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html seesat-l-request_at_satobs.org wrote: > Re: off topic - Nikon's new camera for astrophoto _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Feb 12 2015 - 15:06:11 UTC
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