tedgoudie

I came here to start a thread about LE noise (both white and color) that I'm seeing when shooting astro with both X-T2 and X-T20. But since this thread is here, I'll jump in. I only see the noise in shadow areas, and I see much more of it in Capture One than with Lightroom. But I prefer Capture One, so hopefully I'm doing something wrong and someone can point out a way to fix this. I'm honestly looking for help here, not complaining about Fuji or Adobe or Phase One. I'm shooting (lossless compressed) RAW, and usually in time-lapse, so I do not use LENR. This particular file is a 20 second exposure on the X-T20 at ISO3200 from a TL sequence, taken on a 50-degree night last week. If I can figure out how, I'll share the RAW file with anyone who wants it (here it is in Dropbox). I'm posting screenshots, but the noise is present in the final exported JPEGs as well - I've had to use Median NR in Photoshop to get rid of it, which is a huge pain when working with motion TL sequences. Here's a full-size, unedited JPEG export from C1: http://www.tedgoudie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Aug_22_2017_DSCF0681.jpg First, the Capture One screenshots: Zoomed in one step on the left side: 400% zoomed in the same area: To me, those could be hot pixels (or blocks of them), but I'm no technical wiz. The shadows are packed with those. Now a similar comparison from Lightroom. First the normal view: Then a similar 1x zoom: Finally, a 400% zoom into a different part of the picture (the road near the bottom center), because there is no noise in most of the shadows. There are 4 or so of these pixel groups in the whole picture: Any ideas how I can avoid this? I can certainly also post to the C1 forum, but figured I'd check with the Fuji crowd first. Thanks y'all.

This works on any collection in the Library view (including "All Photographs"). 1. Make sure you're in grid view (hit g on your keyboard). 2. Click the word "Metadata" along the top of the photos in the Library Filter ribbon 3. Select any factors you like from the four available columns. If you want to change any of the column criteria, click the name of the column and a fly-out menu will appear (attached screenshot is the fourth column showing the choices).

Actually, there is something about ISO/Q Menu on the x100T that I wish would make it to the X-T1: multiple Auto-ISO setting groups. That's one feature I really miss about that camera after moving to the X-T1. I'm frequently changing the upper bound of Auto-ISO, since I shoot in aperture priority with with auto ISO most of the time, and the ability to hit the Q menu to quickly dial in one of the Auto groups made that much faster.