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Re: [OM] Dust and Scratch Removal

Subject: Re: [OM] Dust and Scratch Removal
From: Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:42:41 -0400
Exactly. Thanks, Moose.

Tina


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/1/2014 8:30 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> The best dust and scratch remover is hardware and not software...
>> scanners that employ a 4th color channel using infrared. Unfortunately they
>> don't work with B&W silver film although B&W chromogenic is OK. They also
>> work poorly with Kodachrome but some scanners seem to be able to make the
>> IR channel work to some degree.
>>
>
> I think it's not the scanners, but the software. Both VueScan and that
> other product that Tina wrestled with for so long, the name of which
> escapes me, have claimed recently a much improved processing of Kodachrome.
>
>
>
>> The problem with software dust and scratch removal is that the software
>> has no way of determining whether what looks like a scratch or speck is
>> actually a a small bit of important detail. The software tends to soften
>> the image as well as reducing the dust and scratches.
>>
>
> I think Tina knows all this. As I recall, she applies PD&S to a layer,
> then paints it in or out, to clear up sky, etc. without blurring important
> detail. Something like that at least. Not a bad solution to a difficult
> problem.
>
> What she is asking for is a lead to something as good or better than the
> long abandoned Polaroid software that will run 64 bit.
>
> Many Bits Moose
>
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