Quoting Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Irfanview is based on dcraw for its RAW conversion. I've had > issues with dcraw in doing starry-night conversions because of the > way it > decides on the white point. By default, I think it chooses the > white > point at the luminosity of the 99th percentile of the photo. Thus, > by > default, 1% of the pixels are blown out. > > I've changed that setting on my version of it a few times to make > > it 99.9th or 99.99th percentile for star photos. Works great.
That's interesting. I've had a similar experience with the interpretation of Raw files in Studioline Photo Classic, a program that I use for cataloging images. It also uses dcraw. The raw conversion of photos I took some months ago of Comet McNaught are all blown out badly in the Studioline conversions. I don't quite understand the setting changes you made to Irfanview. Can you elaborate? Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email address with REAL anti-spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/1 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
