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We’ve been having some clear moonlit nights here in the UK and I’ve been having a go at some long-exposure night shots. A problem I’ve encountered is colour bloom (heat bloom) in the longer exposures where ‘hot’ components in the camera are interfering with the images causing a light ‘glow’ to appear. The longer the exposure, the worse the bloom.
The Nikon site explains why it occurs but doesn’t seem to give much help in finding a solution other than to "…allow the camera to cool…". This doesn’t seem to do much good. Is there any other way of reducing/removing this bloom, perhaps some sort of subtraction method in post-processing, that I could try?
My D50 suffers a similar problem, although to a much lesser extent. Are the higher-end Nikons (D300, D700 etc) similarly affected or is this bloom something that I’ll have to live with until I get much longer pockets?
TIA,
Steve
The Nikon site explains why it occurs but doesn’t seem to give much help in finding a solution other than to "…allow the camera to cool…". This doesn’t seem to do much good. Is there any other way of reducing/removing this bloom, perhaps some sort of subtraction method in post-processing, that I could try?
My D50 suffers a similar problem, although to a much lesser extent. Are the higher-end Nikons (D300, D700 etc) similarly affected or is this bloom something that I’ll have to live with until I get much longer pockets?
TIA,
Steve
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