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Re: filmscanners: Infrared scan
In a message dated 6/9/2001 6:18:40 AM EST, harper@wordweb.com writes:
> I just tried scanning a slide and outputting a colour TIFF and an IR one.
> It was very educational. Any sort of mark, scratch or dust spot is utterly
> black in the IR scan.
If you look closer, you'll see that the dust spots aren't pure black,
but instead are just quite dark.
> Some of the image is also visible as is some of the
> grain, which probably explains why the image is softened by ICE.
No, this has nothing to do with the softening in the ICE
algorithm. This is just a flaw in the algorithm (it does
unnecessary smoothing).
Regards,
Ed Hamrick
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