Pix Taken With Oly C-2100UZ.

[Jayan]

All pix resized to 800x600 and quality reduced for faster download.

 

[ark19]

Hi Jayan,
did u use any noise reduction software for ur 2100UZ night shots??
My C700UZ is full of noise.....

 

[mpenza]

the moon looks out of focus and grainy. did you use digital zoom?

 

[Kei]

the pics look highly compressed ... issit ?

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by mpenza
the moon looks out of focus and grainy. did you use digital zoom?

Yup.....can't afford TC so boh bian has to make do with digi-zoom!!!

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by ark19
Hi Jayan,
did u use any noise reduction software for ur 2100UZ night shots??
My C700UZ is full of noise.....

Of course.....if not full of unwanted dots.

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by Keito
the pics look highly compressed ... issit ?

From 1.2MB per pix down to less than 100KB!!!!

 

[ark19]

So which one did u use?

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by ark19
So which one did u use?

The less than 100KB ones.

 

[ark19]

Sorry, I meant what software reduction was used...

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by ark19
Sorry, I meant what software reduction was used...

Oh! HotPixel and BlackFrame NR from Mediachance.

 

[ark19]

I tried Blackframe NR, but it "ate" away the noise.....
ie the noise was replaced by black spots....

 

[megaweb]

try to use spot metering to take moon shot

 

[Kei]

Originally posted by Jayan


Oh! HotPixel and BlackFrame NR from Mediachance.

Think they degraded your pics alot

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by ark19
I tried Blackframe NR, but it "ate" away the noise.....
ie the noise was replaced by black spots....

Erm.......you must remember to take a 'black frame' after every fews shots to have accurate results.

Cos the hotter the DC gets the more hot pixels there are...e.g. a 8 sec exposure black frame taken when warm has more hot pixels than one taken when cool.

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by Keito


Think they degraded your pics alot

Yup....if not done properly it looks worse than b4.

 

[Jayan]

Originally posted by megaweb
try to use spot metering to take moon shot

It's actually more of a problem with the 2.7x digital zoom.....at 10x optical zoom the Moon looks a wee bit bigger than a peanut.

 

[ark19]

Thanks for the tip Jayan

Have a look at
"my" moon
Took it with C700UZ+C-180

The C-180 could get u closer, but remember to use unsharp mask.

 

[mpenza]

Here's my moon shot (15x optical zoom and 2x digital zoom). Spot metering and infinity focus used.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=502453

 

[Klause]

Jayan, maybe you can post a guide on how to reduce noise. I'm interested to learn.. do you mean i haf to do this:

1. take the pic
2. take a pic wif the lense cover

then use the software to reduce the noise?