Image settings for dark frames

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Steve Teel
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Image settings for dark frames

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When creating dark frames are the image settings (Brightness, White Bal (R), White Bal (B)) significant?
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Re: Image settings for dark frames

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Hi,

for the colour balance, just use the same values for the dark as the light frames.

Brightness should be either the same or lower in the dark frames. Having a lower brightness in the dark frames than the light frames will introduce a uniform pedestal value to the dark subtracted image, but may lead to a more natural look near the black point in the final image as it avoids clipping of negative values (where the dark pixel is a brighter value than the light pixel).

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Re: Image settings for dark frames

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Thanks for the informative insight.
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