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BASIC SOLAR PROCESSING
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BASIC SOLAR PROCESSING Solar processing is a combination of basic principles mixed with art and a little voodoo thrown in for good measure. In this tutorial, we are going to look at the basic process of getting an image from the camera to a finished “product”… A JPEG image that is sized properly...
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Thanks for taking the time to put this together John!!!

I'm sure everyone can benefit from it, but especially our 'solar heads'!!!
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Excellent article John.

Very instructional. Thanks.

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Very useful article John. I've been thinking about getting a Lunt for awhile now.
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Fine article, thanks!!
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A very complete and comprehensive article John. Thanks for assembling this and putting it up on here for us.
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Your article is making it harder to stay away from that area of AP.

Nice work,
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