fred76
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Hi!
Several photographers (Damian Peach, Ian Norman, Thierry Legault, Babak Takeshi, Aaron D. Priest, Laurent Laveder) specialised in nightscapes and deep sky photos, and I have issued a petition to Sony asking them to remove the Star Eater on their ILCE cameras (A6000, A6300, A6500, A7, A7S, A7R, A9, all versions).
The Star Eater is the given name of a software filtering that occurs for long exposures (typically from 4 seconds and above) in any mode, before the raw file is saved. It is NOT the LENR. There is no way to stop it.
Its goal is mainly to remove hot and deviant pixels. But the algorithm is so basic that it also degrades the image sharpness and mistakes pin point stars with hot pixels. The result is a raw file with 30% to 70% less stars.
It also has a non neglictible effect on the sharpness of the images, as shown below:
It is really painful to spend several thousands dollars in a camera that is limited to exposures of 3.2 seconds or less... knowing that the A7* and A9 are really excellent in lowlight.
This is the reason why we wrote this petition that has already been signed by more than 1200 persons since last friday.
We invite you to sign it and share the link to your friends, your Facebook pages, Twitters accounts, journalists and blog editors you may know...
The link : Sign the Petition
Clear Sky
Fred
Several photographers (Damian Peach, Ian Norman, Thierry Legault, Babak Takeshi, Aaron D. Priest, Laurent Laveder) specialised in nightscapes and deep sky photos, and I have issued a petition to Sony asking them to remove the Star Eater on their ILCE cameras (A6000, A6300, A6500, A7, A7S, A7R, A9, all versions).
The Star Eater is the given name of a software filtering that occurs for long exposures (typically from 4 seconds and above) in any mode, before the raw file is saved. It is NOT the LENR. There is no way to stop it.
Its goal is mainly to remove hot and deviant pixels. But the algorithm is so basic that it also degrades the image sharpness and mistakes pin point stars with hot pixels. The result is a raw file with 30% to 70% less stars.
It also has a non neglictible effect on the sharpness of the images, as shown below:
It is really painful to spend several thousands dollars in a camera that is limited to exposures of 3.2 seconds or less... knowing that the A7* and A9 are really excellent in lowlight.
This is the reason why we wrote this petition that has already been signed by more than 1200 persons since last friday.
We invite you to sign it and share the link to your friends, your Facebook pages, Twitters accounts, journalists and blog editors you may know...
The link : Sign the Petition
Clear Sky
Fred
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