Here's ETA with the modded 300D. The red channel is very high. maybe because im also shooting it through the UHC-S filter? I noticed now less processing required and abit slightly less noise (I think). once again, the focusing was out.
Hey Eric, I just took my first photos tonight on the 400D. I notice your images here are just under 6kb. The photos I downloaded from the camera to the pc are over 4Mb.. This is a huge file to put on the internet or to email. How do you change it's file size?
Good shot there. I use Iris as does Photoncollector. I select a dark area of sky, draw a small box then type in "white" in command box, that tells Iris to make the sky neutral colour, instantly colorbalancing sky background. Gray point in Photoshop does similar, hit that then click on dark area of sky, after a few goes sky shoud be neutral colour.
Scott
looks good to me, looks nice infact, love it how you can see the little flare blasts of nebulae jeting out on the sides of the eta star section.
naturally the mod will increase the red channel by a butt-load, and images will come out more red, for example a pic of tarantula neb, will come out looking totaly different in color, much redder, compared to your unmodified shots of it.
Hey Eric, I just took my first photos tonight on the 400D. I notice your images here are just under 6kb. The photos I downloaded from the camera to the pc are over 4Mb.. This is a huge file to put on the internet or to email. How do you change it's file size?
Baz.
hey Baz. I use photoshop to change the pic size. first i resize it to 800x600 in photoshop -> image ---> image size
then i convert to 8 bit mode from --->image ---> mode
then i save it as .jpg and define size under 150kb
Good shot there. I use Iris as does Photoncollector. I select a dark area of sky, draw a small box then type in "white" in command box, that tells Iris to make the sky neutral colour, instantly colorbalancing sky background. Gray point in Photoshop does similar, hit that then click on dark area of sky, after a few goes sky shoud be neutral colour.
Scott
thanks scott. I will definitely give Iris a go to balance my colours. i normally try adjusting the levels in photoshop to balance it or use gradient exterminator to balance my colours which sometimes it doesnt work too good. Iris looks like a very hard program to use.
many thanks guys. that and IC434 were just test shots from the 300D eg; out of focus etc as i wasn't paying too much attention snapping it due to the bad weather down here. waiting for the UV/IR filter hope that will lower the red channel.
