Re: [APML] Digital astrophotography

["westergren" <westergren@netzero.net>]

Robert,

I agree all the way with your assessment of Ron's presentations at
AstroImage2002.  I'm a film guy now (CCD's in the future sometime) and I
learned a lot from Ron about processing that I'm putting into use on my
scanned film images.  I'm getting Ron's book and I can hardly wait for Jerry
Lodriguss' new book on image processing.

Your comment that the darkroom is dead, rather than film, is also very
correct.  I think CCD's and film both have a place in astrophotography,
regardless of S&T's position on the subject.

Don

From: "Robert Reeves" <reeves10@swbell.net>
> Both Ron Wodaski and myself stayed with Darren Thibodeau out in California
> during the AstroImage 2002 conference, so we got to knock heads together
for
> a while.  Although I am a film person I was impressed with the
> cross-connection between the image processing for both film and CCD.  It
was
> quite clear that once the image was secured, be it directly with a CCD or
> through scanning film, the processing of said image was nearly the same.
> Although he was there at AstroImage to promote CCD, Ron had some really
> useful processing tips that apply directly to Photoshoping a film scan as
> well.  The two disciplines are closer together than most believe.  Film
> ain't dead, its that darkroom that is dead.




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