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Old 03-11-2009, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman View Post
Hi Stephen
Lovely shot.

Startrails only reads jpegs and tif's, as far as I know.

So you could convert your RAWs to TIFs, but I don't know how much better it will be. When you save TIF's from the startrails application, they're only 8 bit tifs, not 16bit tifs.

So I've been converting my raws to jpegs and feeding them into startrails.
Thanks very much for the comments and info, Mike. I might give it a test run with tifs next time, just to see if there's an improvement. If not I'll stick to jpgs. It's a shame the software doesn't handle RAW files like DSS does.

How many darks would you normally do for star trails, Mike? I think I used about 10 for this image.

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Originally Posted by Hagar View Post
Never tried star trails so it's a bit hard to comment but I can say it is a nice image. Keep at it.
Thanks Doug!

Cheers,
Stephen
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