Ultimate Nikon Coolpix P1000 Resolution at Extreme Zoom !

[Sylvain Weiller]

Hi all,
I made a YouTube video to teach people how to get the ultimate resolution from their P1000 camera.


Showing wide angle 24 mm and inset for 12000 mm registered image

link :

Enjoy !

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Best Regards,
Sylvain
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[Augustin Man]

An outstandingly useful example, as always from you, my friend!

Thank you very much for sharing your achievement,

Augustin

 

[Gzoladz]

Impressive! Is that software free?

Thanks for sharing

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

An outstandingly useful example, as always from you, my friend!

Thank you very much for sharing your achievement,

Augustin

Hi Augustin,

Thanks for your very kind words !
I hope some people will be able to use my work and post their results as a mint 80 mm diameter lens on an affordable consumer camera and some good planetary style astrophotography processing is something prone to incredible resolution ...

The theorical Rayleigh resolution of the P1000 is 1.55" (sec of arc) , this means (in good contrast conditions) to be able to distinguish a coin of 2 cm at about 2 km !

Calculations :
Theta = 1.2 x λ / D
where
theta is the angular resolution in radians,
λ is the wavelength of light in meters,
and D is the diameter of the lens aperture in meters.
Theta is 7.5e-6 ... in arc of seconds 7.5e-6 × (3600 × 180)/π = 1.547"

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

Hi Gzoladz,
Yes ! Both softwares are free for non commercial use.

 

[Gzoladz]

Thank you. I will investigate that, I know I can get more out of my p1000 video capabilities.

 

[Gzoladz]

Sylvain, just one question, when you metion 200gb for a movie, that is for how a movie how long?

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

Hi Gzoladz,

About 200 Gb ... This includes the original P1000 movie, the uncompressed RGB AVI from PIPP, the space for processing ... all this for a movie of about 5 min @ 2160p 30 FPS which is the most I do generally.

 

[Gzoladz]

Hi Gzoladz,

About 200 Gb ... This includes the original P1000 movie, the uncompressed RGB AVI from PIPP, the space for processing ... all this for a movie of about 5 min @ 2160p 30 FPS which is the most I do generally.

Thanks Sylvain, I have installed both and got as far as loading the output from PIPP into Astrosurface. I am on 3. Analyse/Register but cannot find where I need to click to finalise the process.

What am I missing? Thanks for your help.

 

[Gzoladz]

Hi Gzoladz,

About 200 Gb ... This includes the original P1000 movie, the uncompressed RGB AVI from PIPP, the space for processing ... all this for a movie of about 5 min @ 2160p 30 FPS which is the most I do generally.

Thanks Sylvain, I have installed both and got as far as loading the output from PIPP into Astrosurface. I am on 3. Analyse/Register but cannot find where I need to click to finalise the process.

What am I missing? Thanks for your help.

Ok I may have figured it out - I went into Convert/Export on Astrosurface and selected Export --> To Files to get the .png

Is that the right thing to do? Is next step editing?

Just to validate my understanding, am I right to believe that what we are doing is to convert the video into raw pictures to be able to have more options to edit them? Or I am oversimplifying it?

Thanks a lot for this, looking forward to explore this further.

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

......Ok I may have figured it out - I went into Convert/Export on Astrosurface and selected Export --> To Files to get the .png

Is that the right thing to do? Is next step editing?

......

Hi Gzoladz,

Sorry exporting is not the good step ...

Better than explaining here you can use the demo I just posted on Youtube for Solar work ... It is the same process and the same steps (except we work in full RGB colors then no colorization at the end of course !).

 

[Gzoladz]

Thanks Sylvain, I only got to this today - the video should help, I will try!

 

[357mm]

Your ultimate/extreme results are nothing short of amazing. Wow!

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

Your ultimate/extreme results are nothing short of amazing. Wow!

Hi Dodge,

Thanks for your kind words !
... and thanks to the Nikon P1000 lens quality

 

[Gzoladz]

I have got to the end of it. Not with a space picture, but shooting a random distant object and the results are promising!

One last question (maybe)....the youtube guide indicates that the video should be recorded at 4k / 3000mm. I think that the P1000 can go further (6000mm) and on video keep true 4k.

Have you tried this option?

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

I have got to the end of it. Not with a space picture, but shooting a random distant object and the results are promising!

One last question (maybe)....the youtube guide indicates that the video should be recorded at 4k / 3000mm. I think that the P1000 can go further (6000mm) and on video keep true 4k.

Have you tried this option?

Hi Gzoladz,

Good !

In the Youtube video you can see the results of the P1000 at 3000, 6000 and 12000 mm !
All are UHD 2160p.
The choice is : do you want more or less wide field ?

 

[Gzoladz]

Got it, that's fantastic!

Can't wait to test it with some real footage.

Thanks for sharing the technique, more to come on this from me!

 

[Augustin Man]

Got it, that's fantastic!

Can't wait to test it with some real footage.

Thanks for sharing the technique, more to come on this from me!

Congratulations, my friend!

I'm eagerly expected to share your image(s)

All the best,

Augustin

P.S. I have to get a better tripod before trying the method our friend Sylvain generously taught us here.

 

[Gzoladz]

Got it, that's fantastic!

Can't wait to test it with some real footage.

Thanks for sharing the technique, more to come on this from me!

Congratulations, my friend!

I'm eagerly expected to share your image(s)

All the best,

Augustin

P.S. I have to get a better tripod before trying the method our friend Sylvain generously taught us here.

Cheers my friend! Me too...I will try to get a decent image this weekend. I only tested with the red bricks of a house across the road (and through glass) but I can see the potential

 

[Sylvain Weiller]

Got it, that's fantastic!

Can't wait to test it with some real footage.

Thanks for sharing the technique, more to come on this from me!

My pleasure !