From: Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >These looks to me like not a noise problem, but a *signal* to >noise problem. Again, without a useful histogram, it's difficult to know >if you got the bright parts exposed to the right. By default, the RAW >converters I've seen will gain up the entire image until the brightest >part is "bright." Some even ignore the top 1% or so of what's brightest >and make the 99th percent "white" and blow out the top 1% For stars and >such that is definately unacceptable. >
I agree that appears to be exactly what was happening. > A good example is your >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6356709 > > Re-convert from RAW so that the white part of the moon isn't blown >out (assuming it wasn't in the original RAW). That'll reduce the black >back down to the noise floor where it belongs. If the moon is still too >bright to make out the detail in the more dimly-lit parts (but isn't blown >out in the brightest), then sorry, Charlie... not enough dynamic range to >capture in one shot. > >-Cory > > Thanks. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
