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Thanks a BUNCH Misha!!!!!!! the information really helps a lot! Can you explain to me what this means: "Some equalization (stretching the brightness histogram) will help a lot. Unfortunately, it will also enhance the visible image noise." It's under the section, "post-processing" on the one of the links you gave me. I'll include the link if you want to read in more in context. thanks again, Misha!