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Figure 26. Examples of contrast and brightness settings of the displayed image. For adjustment of
the camera settings, the contrast and brightness settings of the displayed image have to be set to
neutral, so that the actual grey values of the grabbed image are displayed. In example A, the
neutral settings of the displayed are brightness –0.5 and contrast 1.0 (and gamma correction factor
of the displayed image 1.0). In example B, the neutral display settings are brightness 0 and
contrast 0. In example C, a neutral contrast setting of the displayed image is achieved when the
image contrast is stretched across the whole range of available grey values, from 0 to 255.
Our final consideration goes to saving images of comets. If we are not using the “live”
mode for comet scoring, we have to record and save images before the measurement. It is
good practice to save images of measured comets even if we are working in the “live”
mode, to keep a record of the experiment. There are many formats available for saving
images (JPEG, TIF, BMP, GIF etc.). Images that are used for image analysis should be
stored in the TIFF format – this format preserves all information contained in the
recorded image, hence the image files are larger than in other formats and use up a lot of
computer memory. However, note that images saved in other formats, e.g. in the popular
JPEG format, get distorted during compression to make files smaller. Such distorted
images should not be used for measurements.
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