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Thanks Rob,
Yeah, I know its all technically better, but it honestly feels like going backward to go forward.
And dont get me started on some of these so called "capture programs".....I must have perhaps 10 of them on my PC clogging the place up, maybe 80% of them are just useless to use, no instructions, no real help files, nothing to sort of point you in the right direction. Its like there is an assumed knowledge of what you need to do to fix something or get good results.
I know that there is a level of knowledge and understanding required to be able to get good results, but with each new step I take or improvement I make, it seems to shine a spotlight on all the other CRAP bits that were previously in the shadows.....for example....I fix the MPCC problem with my DSLR, NOW I have a massive vignetting problem, I need a light box to fix that, in the meantime, my raw files are full of hot pixels and heat noise, need a cool box to fix that, or a cooled CCD. I borrow a cooled CCD, expect things to JUMP out at me compared to a DSLR, nope, not gunna happen, I need to go to FITS tutorial camp for 2 weeks to understand how to calibrate them and debayer them and then stack them properly and then combine them with darks (oops, didnt do any) and flats (oops, no light box) and bias (oops, dumb ass me doesnt know how to do these - MORE reading) and dark-flat-bias-light-combination master-garbage-superflats with stretched histograms!!!!
But before I do that, I need to use a crappy capture program with 4 settings, doesnt save, locks up, doesnt explain itself and was probably written by the last guy who got the cranks with the previously bad program and decided to write his own to make HIS life easier and he simply forgot to attach an instruction manual.
I mean, I respect those who produce amazing images and have the knowledge, skills and patience to do all this and throw endless wads of cash at a problem (it seems) to get better results, but it astounds me as to just how ridiculously complicated and never ending it all seems to be....
I mean, case in point.... I searched for FITS viewer, got a hit from NASA of all places, talking about a FITS Liberator for Hubble generated data. I thought, GREAT! now I can see the FITS files in all their glory, load it up, NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! I see a bayer matrix all over the screen, NO WAY to apply the RGBG or RGGB or BGGR or BRGR or GBRR or GRRBUFHBSDFBDSF friggin matrix to the stupid picture and 1.9 Million combinations of logx/sinr/logqx/sqrt crap that only means something to rocket scientists....!!!!
I am SO sick of downloading (and then uninstalling)software to try and SEE what data there is to SEE, that my ADD/REMOVE programs icon has filed a restraining order against me!
Grumble grumble grumble.....some more......
Chris
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