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Proud owner of a new Olympus E-PL6

Started Dec 23, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP alexisgreat Veteran Member • Posts: 6,459
Re: Proud owner of a new Olympus E-PL6

OrdinarilyInordinate wrote:

Depending on quality of the screen protectors and how much you plan on scuffing the screen, of course. I don't change mine for many months, if at all, but I'm very careful with my equipment.

There should be those basic power saving features.

Regarding long exposure noise, you'd be subtracting a dark frame anyway. If you plan on doing a series of long exposures in a row, make one dark frame of the same duration as the exposure (many astro stacking programs include an option to upload a dark frame exposure). Otherwise there should be an option to enable long exposure noise reduction--that automatically creates and subtracts a dark frame for every long exposure photo. So your 30-second exposure will take 60 seconds in total. You can disable that if you'd rather save time and create one dark frame for all subsequent 30-second exposures and apply it later yourself with computer software.

Thanks, is there an option in the camera menus to take just one dark frame exposure for a series of exposures that are all of the same length?  Also, I take it that there will be a bit more noise in this situation than if a dark frame was taken after every exposure?

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