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Old 17-07-2010, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Screwdriverone View Post
Hi John,

Thanks for the tip, I was thinking the ISO 1600 was a bit noisy, I will definitely try this out and give it a red hot go.

Cheers

Chris
Well it is noisier than ISO800 yes. I'm no guru on the subject but the other night I was out there imaging & like you, I was limited to 35 secs before I got egg shape stars; I tried ISO 800 & wasn't satisfied with the amount of data collected so I jumped to 1600 & tried an exposure of 25 secs. I also tried using darks by both procedures (In camera noise reduction &/or taking a set of darks after the lights) The darks I took after the imaging run didn't kill all the noise but the in camera noise reduction did.

Here's the 1600ISO example. I'm quite happy with this amount of noise!
http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...arinafinal.png

BTW No noise reduction in editting was done with the image, just the noise reduction from the camera.
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