Thread: Why Dither?
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Old 16-09-2011, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by coldlegs View Post
Dithering clearly does a great job of getting rid of the hot/dark pixels but I thought it was also good for improving resolution. Am I wrong?
Stephen
Here is an animated gif of crops from dithered and not dithered 20 frame stacks. 1MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...11_09/D_ND.gif

and one with more contrast etc 2.5MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...1_09/NB_D_.gif

The dithered image is 'tighter' especially in the very dim stars. Dithering does improve one shot colour as the Bayer matrix effectively lowers colour resolution to less than half of the luminance.

Bert
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