Low tech; PEC?
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Exactly. Thanks, Moose.
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > 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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> > What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
> >
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