Re: [CinePaint] controversial question (could be my fault).

Rob Lingelbach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
>
> I downloaded and processed nef with cinepaint.

your browser must support MIME-types of NEF?  or ...

>  There is a lot of noise
> but that is normal.  The settings are ISO 1600.  With such a high ISO
> there is nothing abnormal about the image.

oh man.  fuggedaboudit.  I shot it without flash, indoors, didn't  
realize the camera
would jump the ISO so high but that's what they're supposed to do on  
Auto mode,
assuming 1/30 sec.

> There are a 2 megabyte jpeg showing
> the cinepaint result and a 22 kilobyte preview image that was  
> extracted
> from the nef.  I could email those directly to you if your email
> server has no qualms about large attachments. Let me know.
>
> The noise problem can be dealt with in many ways via post-processing.
> One effective way is to use greycstoration:
>
> http://cimg.sourceforge.net/greycstoration/

that's good to know about, thanks.   I'll look into that tool.

> So there is nothing wrong with cinepaint.  The image appears
> as it should appear.

I didn't really think there was anything wrong with cinepaint, in fact  
I thought it was giving me everything in the image, but wanted to know  
what to do to deal with the noise without giving up sharpness (always  
a bit of a tradeoff).

thanks very much Frank, if you'd like to send me the results via email  
feel free, can handle big files.

--
Rob Lingelbach
[email protected]  http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html




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