Re: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus

[Ray Butler <ray.butler@nuigalway.ie>]

Couldn't agree more, Stuart.

Just when you start thinking that well, maybe film _has_ lost its place 
in AP, along comes a big ole' medium format E200 shot that slaps you 
around for a few minutes shouting "what the hell were you thinking, you 
fickle fool?!"!

Ray "who thinks that the eventual discontinuation of E200, not the 
advance of DSLRs, will be the significant factor in determining when 
'the death of film astrophotography' happens" Butler



>John, if that image was as messy as you described then this is pretty close
>to a miracle - what a super shot and so nicely processed!
>
>Stuart
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "John Laborde" <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com>
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:04 AM
>Subject: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus
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>>Here is an image or rather two images in a two frame mosaic of Rho
>>Ophiuchus area I took last year. I didn't take it very far in the
>>processing except to scan the film. The scanned images were quit noisy
>>and the film had a ton of dust bunnies and hairs from poor handling at
>>the film lab. I was just going to scrap these shots Since then I have
>>learned a lot about noise control and image processing in general so I
>>decided just a few days ago to complete the processing started a year ago.
>>
>>The image is a mosaic of 2 120- E200 pushed 1 stop, scanned at 4000 dpi
>>on a PrintScan 120. All processing was done in Photoshop CS and passed
>>through the demo version of  Noise Ninja for noise reduction.
>>
>>Just a side note, I think Noise Ninja works much better that Neat Image
>>which I have been using for about a year.
>>
>>Here's the image.
>>http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=728&UserID=67
>>
>>comment welcome
>>
>>
>>John Laborde
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