neutral settings for capturing
neutral settings for capturing
Wish to know best settings in sharpcap for getting the most "raw images". Have been told white balance should be set to 50. What about brightness, should it be set to zero? Are there other settings that affect the "rawness" of the images. Would setting everyone to auto be the best? I have a zwo 294 osc camera. Thanks.
Re: neutral settings for capturing
I am running a ZWO 1600MC Pro camera. Here is what my experimentation has shown.
SharpCap’s Image Control Tab – White Balance (R) and (B) settings, control the Camera’s individual ch gains. Changing this affects the ‘RAW’ data output by the camera. So, when the RAW data reaches SharpCap, it has already been modified by this setting (was not expecting this for the RAW format
).
I have now removed the ‘Auto’ setting from both White Balance (R) and (B) in all Profiles. On this camera, the settings of 53-68 produce all four histogram’s to lineup. The results now are more consistent and producing natural color - much easer to process. Even the setting of 50-50 was a lot better than 'Auto'.
The Brightness setting controls the Black Point. You want the data to start just to the right of the vertical left axis. On my camera, Brightness = 5.
One more thing: when changing from ‘Auto’ to something like 50-50 (in my case 53-68) the main Gain will also need to be changed. Again, this is for the ZWO 1600MC. Not sure how the ZWO 294 will act.
Hope this help,
V.P
SharpCap’s Image Control Tab – White Balance (R) and (B) settings, control the Camera’s individual ch gains. Changing this affects the ‘RAW’ data output by the camera. So, when the RAW data reaches SharpCap, it has already been modified by this setting (was not expecting this for the RAW format
).I have now removed the ‘Auto’ setting from both White Balance (R) and (B) in all Profiles. On this camera, the settings of 53-68 produce all four histogram’s to lineup. The results now are more consistent and producing natural color - much easer to process. Even the setting of 50-50 was a lot better than 'Auto'.
The Brightness setting controls the Black Point. You want the data to start just to the right of the vertical left axis. On my camera, Brightness = 5.
One more thing: when changing from ‘Auto’ to something like 50-50 (in my case 53-68) the main Gain will also need to be changed. Again, this is for the ZWO 1600MC. Not sure how the ZWO 294 will act.
Hope this help,
V.P
Re: neutral settings for capturing
The "default" settings for the ASI294MC Pro are: red 50, blue 50 and brightness 30. These are values I found when you use Zwo capture software and then use the Default settings there.
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Re: neutral settings for capturing
Thank you both for the replies