Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available

["Robert Kehl" <bobkehl@kvernkehl.com>]

Well done Ed!

Please tell us more about the difference between your spot removal vs. ICE.

And what are you saying about reduction of film grain??!!  Now that you've
conquered Digital Ice's spot removal are you also improving on ASF's film
grain equalization ?

Please expound.

Bob Kehl


----- Original Message -----
From: <EdHamrick@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available


> I just released VueScan 6.6 for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
> It can be downloaded from:
>
>   http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
>
> What's new in version 6.6
>
>   * Significantly improved image cleaning.  It now
>     removes dust spots completely when there's an
>     infrared channel and reduces film grain at the
>     same time (with or without the infrared channel).
>
> This is the first version that does a better job removing
> dust spots than the ICE algorithm, and even works well
> with Kodachrome (ICE doesn't).
>
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick
>