Image Dust Off Ref Photo - Nikon D300 User Manual

Image Dust Off Ref Photo

(User's Manual – D300S page 305; D300 page 319)
Often, you may go out and do an expensive shoot only to
return and find that some dust spots have appeared in the
worst possible place in your images. If you immediately
create an Image Dust Off ref photo, you can use it to remove
the dust spots from your images and afterward go clean the
camera's sensor for your next shooting session.
Nikon calls this function Image Dust Off ref photo in the
D300S and Dust Off ref photo in the D300. We'll use Image
Dust off ref photo for all references in this section. Here's
how it works.
When you use the instructions below to create the Image Dust
Off ref photo, you'll be shooting a blank, unfocused picture of
a pure white or gray background. The dust spots in the image
will then be readily apparent to Nikon Capture NX2 software.
Yes, you must use Nikon's software to automatically
batch-remove dust spots from a large number of images.
When you load the image to be cleaned into Capture NX2,
along with the dust-off image, the software will use that
image to remove the spots in your production image.
The position and amount of dust on the low-pass filter may
change. It is recommended that you take Image Dust Off ref
photos regularly and use one that was taken within one day of
the photographs you wish to clean up.
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