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>From: Brian C. Baird nospam@please.no
>http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/35638933/original
>> What was that?
>> 3200 ISO in black & white??
>> Very noisy under that shroud of no-color...
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>I think you might have your gamma set too high. There is noise present,
>but only if I ramp the levels.
The noise is from the post-processing of a very dull, flat image. That's all I
could get shooting through cloud cover. Man, I wish the eclipse had occurred
two weeks ago!
Haleakula has real clear skies.
Michael A. Covington - 30 Oct 2004 03:41 GMT
> >From: Brian C. Baird nospam@please.no
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> two weeks ago!
> Haleakula has real clear skies.
Your moon image looks good to me. Remember, the moon itself has a rather
grainy, speckled surface. I understood that your image had been enlarged
and contrast-enhanced. It is a testimony to the sharpness of the lens.
What lens was that, exactly?

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Michael A. Covington
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