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    Re: Digital Camera CEL NAV photos
    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2008 Aug 10, 09:50 -0700

    George,
    
         If you can set your computer up with iPhoto or equivalent then
    you would be able to edit original images. Size, exposure, contrast,
    color saturation, and cropping are some of the adjustable features
    available.
    
    On Aug 10, 9:27�am, "George Huxtable" 
    wrote:
    > This may perhaps be a bit of a diversion �from the main thrust of our
    > original investigation. But those curious apparent-flares around the Sun
    > edge have intrigued me somewhat. I've been looking at those images, and
    > particularly picture 11 that came with [6070], in more detail.
    >
    > Although Greg informed us that the original Sun image was 108 by 108 pixels
    > (or thereabouts), the image, as it arrived to me, covered something like 680
    > by 680 pixels, as became obvious when it was blown up further on my screen.
    > So at some stage it had been resampled, and software, somewhere, had done
    > its best with the original bitty image, to expand it up and smear it out,
    > over 36 times as many pixels as before. That may indeed be a good way to
    > expand a family photo, for example, but in our present inquiry, does that
    > treatment create unwanted artefacts that may be confusing our original
    > contrasty, and perhaps overexposed, image of the Sun? I only ask...
    >
    > I hesitate to ask for more from Greg, who has done much to aid us in
    > providing good information and nice pictures of his observations. But does
    > he have a way to transmit his image as an attachment that shows no more than
    > that Sun disc, with a bit of a margin around it, say 150 x150 pixels or so,
    > at its original bitty encoding, without inflation? That might tell us more
    > about what the camera alone is doing with the Sun image, without being
    > messed-about by anything else on the way to us. If I had any idea, myself,
    > how to do that, I would offer advice: but I don't.
    >
    > George.
    >
    > contact George Huxtable at geo...@huxtable.u-net.com
    > or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
    > or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
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