Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Those who know about the effort astronomers go to extract sharp images of distant galaxies, stars and nebulae, realize that there's a lot of mathematics involved in undoing the blurring caused by the earths movement, refraction through the atmosphere, bright pixels and plain random noise that goes with imaging mostly black sky.
We pay more and more for ever increasing pixel count and perhaps dynamic range as well as more menus than in Martha Stewarts TV shows!
I was wondering how we could address a simple issue of blur and was impressed with using the wavelet algorithm in ImagesPlus. The relevant thread in Imaging Technology: Theory, Alternatives, Practice and Advances is here . We have e used it in a first look, to sharpen a flower photographed by James Newman with a Nikon 105mm Macro lens at 1/60 sec and f25!
I ask everyone who wants to get the best out of their RAW images especially to look at the possibilities of this software which is downloadable as a demo here .
I hope we can use this as an initial approach to openly discussing new ways to optimize images without spending a fortune!
Asher
We pay more and more for ever increasing pixel count and perhaps dynamic range as well as more menus than in Martha Stewarts TV shows!
I was wondering how we could address a simple issue of blur and was impressed with using the wavelet algorithm in ImagesPlus. The relevant thread in Imaging Technology: Theory, Alternatives, Practice and Advances is here . We have e used it in a first look, to sharpen a flower photographed by James Newman with a Nikon 105mm Macro lens at 1/60 sec and f25!
I ask everyone who wants to get the best out of their RAW images especially to look at the possibilities of this software which is downloadable as a demo here .
I hope we can use this as an initial approach to openly discussing new ways to optimize images without spending a fortune!
Asher