Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available

["Henry Richardson" <itai46@hotmail.com>]

>From: EdHamrick@aol.com
>Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:52:03 EST
>
>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).
>

I wish that you would make the film grain reduction a separate control.  I 
just tried it with my Minolta Elite and now the Clean/Scrub/Scour filters 
soften the image whereas before it only got rid of spot and scratch defects 
without making the image soft.  With 6.5 and before I just left it set to 
Scour all the time since it didn't have any affect on the image except 
cleaning it up.  When set to Scour 6.6 makes a major change in the image -- 
almost looks like a watercolor painting now.  It didn't do this before.  The 
new grain algorithm softens the image so, please, make it a separate 
control.
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com