Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Sounds to me like people should buy a working copy of Vuescan now before 
either Ed breaks it up into 3 programs for $40 or more each, or he's 
given a "offer he can't refuse" from someone like Microsoft ;-)

Art

EdHamrick@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/31/2001 9:59:13 AM EST, bobkehl@kvernkehl.com writes:
> 
> 
>> 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 ?
> 
> 
> I'd rather not go into the details of what I did, but I was careful not
> to violate any of ASF's patents.  In avoiding their patents, I was able
> to come up with a much better way of doing infrared dust removal
> (what ASF calls ICE) and grain reduction (what ASF calls GEM).
> Both are combined in the "Options|Clean" option.
> 
> The key insight came when I learned about Sigma filters.  I was
> amazed at how well the final algorithm worked.  I can probably
> tweak it some more, but it works quite well now.  I'd recommend
> using the "Clean" setting instead of "Scrub" or "Scour" since
> it seems to work well and is quite fast.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick