Camera saturation - image compression level

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

Bastien wrote:
> - shots of the moon are often saturated: how to reduce the gain
>   of the camera?  Ideally one would like to do this manually...

I never figured out how to control the gain from software.

> - is there a way to take pictures with a higher resolution?  the 
>   default compression level doesn't produce great pictures.

Yes, sort of.  Last year I figured out a way to capture and reconstruct
the raw data from the camera using a higher quality demosaicing algorithm.
 The process is documented here:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-February/011029.html

--Ben

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