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Old 02-06-2008, 10:20 PM
Hagar (Doug)
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G'Day again Mike I just had another look at your text... Gain of 91% WOW that is very high I usually run with a gain of between 1% and about 20%. It allows an offset of between 117 and 130 max. The thing to remember about gain is it is like the ISO setting of DSLR. The higher you set it the higher the noise level and the easier it is to oversaturate an image. You are better with longer exposures a lower gain as this reduces the noise and increases the signal to noise ratio. It has taken me a while to wake up to this fact even though the likes of Theo, Jase and Peter Ward told me I still thought diferent.

Good luck and keep posting. Maybe we can all help each other. There is a good few QHY8's about now. Theo must be bringing in container lots.
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