HDR photo

[Gabriel Landini]

I know that this is a bit off the main direction of IJ, but has anybody
written a plugin to do High Dynamic Range photos out of a sequence of
increasingly exposed images?  I am curious about what would one get in
microscopy images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

Cheers,

G.

[David Hovis]

I've thought about it.  It would actually be useful when doing  
topographic mapping of a high contrast surface (such as a fracture  
surface) with a confocal microscope.  12-bits per pixel is often not  
enough to deal with it.   I often have to choose if I want to have  
more saturated or undersaturated regions.

--David

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David Hovis
Senior Research Associate
Department of Materials Science
Case Western Reserve University
[hidden email]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Gabriel Landini wrote:

> I know that this is a bit off the main direction of IJ, but has  
> anybody
> written a plugin to do High Dynamic Range photos out of a sequence of
> increasingly exposed images?  I am curious about what would one get in
> microscopy images.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
>
> Cheers,
>
> G.

[Albert Cardona]

> I know that this is a bit off the main direction of IJ, but has anybody
> written a plugin to do High Dynamic Range photos out of a sequence of
> increasingly exposed images?  I am curious about what would one get in
> microscopy images.
>  

For DIC images, one would get an awesome amount of detail, since usually
one is forced to either saturete above or below.

So I'm all for it.

It would be nice if image acquisition software did it as an option.
Taking several images by hand will be a pain.

So MicroManager people, this is a flag we'd love you to take.

Albert

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Albert Cardona
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona