Camera saturation - image compression level

[Sean DALY]

I had heard of dcraw
(http://www.guillermoluijk.com/tutorial/dcraw/index_en.htm) but never
used it except once (not on XO), called from imagemagick as a delegate
like this:

$ convert dcraw8:image.crw  image.png


Sean



On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 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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