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Night Sky Shooting / Astrophotography on X-T2 : ETTR? ISO 1600?

Started Oct 2, 2018 | Discussions thread
Sebastien Guyader
Sebastien Guyader Contributing Member • Posts: 687
Re: Night Sky Shooting / Astrophotography on X-T2 : ETTR? ISO 1600?
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shiftyonthemic wrote:

vegetaleb wrote:

I invite you to try stacking instead of ETTR

I made a full tutorial last year https://fujiandstuff.wordpress.com/milky-way-and-light-pollution-photography-tutorial-using-fuji/

Nice detailed write up on stacking with the X-T10!

- Did you have the DR to Auto, 100, 200 or 400?

- Where was the EC dial at? 0? Did you not care to look at the histogram?

Edit: Folks are suggesting

  • DR100
  • Pro Neg Std.
  • Highlight tone -2
  • Shadow tone -2

In his tutorial, vegetaleb says to set the camera to save raw files, not joegj so DR, Film Sim, tone settings won't matter, everything is done in processing, either after stacking if the stacking program accepts RAF files like Sequator, or before if you need to feed the program with Tiff files (in this case you can minimally process the raw files for lens distribution for example, and adjust the white balance if it is off).

By the the way I just tried Sequator in Linux (using wine) and it works great! I found it best for me to process raw files in RawTherapee (adjusting white balance, lens distortion, vignetting, choice of demosaicing algorithm) and let Sequator stack 16-bit Tiff files (using "accumulation" for composition computing options). Then I save the result as linear Tiff which I process in RawTherapee for final result.

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