Ok, I'm still waiting to get my Digi-T system, and yet to have taken an astropic. BUT, I've been thinking about something. I see that many people are taking the CP995 or 4500 (which I have) and stacking a few 1 min exposures... the 4500 has a movie mode that basically works like a webcam. I've seen many good shots that were stacked from .avi movies. Which is better to use with the digital cameras?? Should I take a 2-3 minute movie and just pic out the very best frames, or take about 5 <1 min shots and stack them with a dark frame? The CP4500 is a 4 megapixel camera, and I think the movie mode is only VGA quality though.
Question for you Coolpix users...
Started by lutton.7, 11/26/2002 05:50AM
Posted 11/26/2002 05:50AM
Opening Post
Posted 11/27/2002 08:52PM
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Anthony,
Still images, of higher resolution, will be much better than 'Movie' mode on DSOs.
You might get acceptable results on the planets, using 'Movie' mode; however, I still think using a high-resolution and 'Continuous' mode would be better.
Join the Yahoo!Group 'digital_astro' to learn all about taking digital astro images with your Coolpix and how to process those images with various software packages. There are plenty of Coolpix users on the group (I have a 995) that can offer assistance.
You can find the link to Digital_Astro on my 'Links' page.
Forrest Egan
http://www.digitalastro.com
Still images, of higher resolution, will be much better than 'Movie' mode on DSOs.
You might get acceptable results on the planets, using 'Movie' mode; however, I still think using a high-resolution and 'Continuous' mode would be better.
Join the Yahoo!Group 'digital_astro' to learn all about taking digital astro images with your Coolpix and how to process those images with various software packages. There are plenty of Coolpix users on the group (I have a 995) that can offer assistance.
You can find the link to Digital_Astro on my 'Links' page.
Forrest Egan
http://www.digitalastro.com
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