"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> The only drawback I've noticed when averaging frames is that any scene elements
> that are supposed to be *really* bright (like looking directly at a
> motion-blurred lightbulb) will end up being smeared out to a dimmer, translucent
> streak (when the same thing captured on *film* would be a very bright streak.)
> Because of the inherent averaging of the 'moving' lightbulb with its dimmer
> background. Someone on the newsgroups pointed this out to me awhile ago; but
> most of the time, averaging-of-frames works quite well.

Not if you set the output file format to HDR (radience) or OpenEXR - the
highlights are preserved correctly with those. That's how I do my all frame
averaging.

> Ken

Cheers,
Edouard.

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