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Old 07-09-2008, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by leon View Post
Now my question (probably a dumb one) but is it possible to take darks without having the camera attached to the optical train.

Basically the camera is just taking an image of darkness, and only the temp is important to the image so that it matches the lights.
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There is no need for your camera to image a dark frame through the optical train.
As long as it is at a similar temp to your light frames, you can literally take the camera off and put the cap on and take the dark frames.

You only need to image through the optical train when doing flats.
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