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I use Nebulosity to capture images with my QHY8. It produces a .fit file. I don't think dcraw is designed to handle .fit files. According to Dave Coffin, the programmer behind dcraw, his mission is to "write and maintain an ANSI C program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any co...

Gee Jim, nice going! :thumbsup: I would've struggled with scripting you did there (it's been a loooong time since I did any batch scripting for Windows/DOS). Thanks! Thanks Ivo, but the major part of that script was something Steve found on a website someplace. All I did was to suggest the 'pause' ...

I am using windows 7 but the sendto is in the same place as Vista and I used the dcraw -v -r 1 1 1 1 -4 -T -S 32767 -k 0 -o 0 *.CR2 as supplied by Ivo instead of the -e%1 in the script. A bit of experimenting and if I use the command prompt dos box without going the sendto route, cd all the way to ...

Thanks Ivo! I probably should have known that but . . . there are a lot of things about that camera I don't know!

Jim

What is the best in-camera white balance setting to use for images to be processed in StarTools? I have a Canon Rebel T3/1100D and the choices are: Auto, Daylight (~5200K), Shade (~7000K), Cloudy (~6000K), Tungsten light (~3200K), White fluorescent light (~4000K), Flash and Custom. I don't see any w...

Aha! I found a copy of version 9.17 at http://lightzoneproject.org/content/dcraw-917-released and it worked! It reads the wild cards now.

Thanks Ivo! You're great!

Does the option '-t 0' (flip image = none) help with the auto rotate?

Yep! That did the trick. No more auto rotate. I'll see if I can find a the 9.17 version of dcraw.

Thanks!

Jim

Hmmm.... that's odd. Are you using a recent version of dcraw? I can compile one for you if needed... I think the version I'm using is the most recent: version 9.20. Thanks for the offer though. Make sure that the resolution of the output is actually correct. Some older versions of dcraw have a bug ...

When I enter dcraw -v -r 1 1 1 1 -4 -T -S 32767 -k 0 -o 0 *.CR2 in the command prompt of my Windows 8.1 machine all I ever get back is: *.CR2: Invalid argument The conversion works fine if I write out the very lengthy filenames but I don't relish having to do that for all the lights, flats, dark fla...

Yes, that seems to be it! And Windows doesn't seem to allow me to change the permissions either. Thanks, Ivo, now I know what's going on. I'll just keep running StarTools from its folder on the C: drive.

Jim