Dealing with Pentax K1 White Dots

[@KenLeePhotography]

I use the same technique and it works extremely well. If a night photo is a full moon star trails photo and has no stars as pinpoints and the image has the little white dots only in the very dark areas, I sometimes will use Lumenzia (luminosity mask) and create a Layer Mask to solely target the dark areas of the image and leave the rest untouched.

[@christianbuhlmann7820]

I just had this happen on a series of 3 minute light painting exposure with my K1m2 and i rewatched this video and picked up on something you said that I missed the first time. I like you turnoff the long exposure noise reduction, in part because it takes as long as the exposure was to be ready for a next shot. I will have to work on my workflow and possibly in the future do an exposure with the noise reduction on and one off. Thanks

[@Madkite]

Interesting. I tend to get much much less on my K1 than that but some very distinct bright pixels. Often odd colours. Really obviously out of place. While this may not be practical for really long exposure. I do use the long shutter noise reduction. For those who don't know this take a secondimagee with the sutter closed of the same duration. So if you do 30 second, then you willhavee to wait another 30. And you can't see the lcd timer in the dark that counts this down. While that makes taking the immage take twice as long. It removes those hot spots completely. And that's 30 seconds compared to how long in post? Pluss it keeps all the star detail out of the gate as it's only counting the hot spots. So it's not like normal noise reduction. It's combining 2 immages. Pentax cameras have had this feature for ages. However, in auto, I'm not sure when it turns on. So I just leave it on.

[@syndicate9974]

Hi brother I was wondering is this camera better than others in night photography ? I want to get pro camera for star shooting and deep space photos 🪐but there is a lot of options Sony , Nikon , canon and of course Pentax .