On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:35:59PM -0400, Matthew Hunt scripsit: > This is standard practice in astrophotography. It gives both better > results (from a signal-to-noise perspective), and wastes less time, > than the in-camera subtraction of a single dark frame. That's what's > so horrible about Pentax's decision.
Pentax's decision is almost certainly being made to prevent someone from taking a no-dark-frame 30s exposure of something warm and posting the resulting mess on the web somewhere. They're probably still a bit twitchy after all the stick they got over the default JPEG settings. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
