Re: filmscanners: Minolta Dual II and Green channel noise

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:44 +0100 (BST)  Tony Sleep 
(TonySleep@halftone.co.uk) wrote:

> Are you sure you are setting the black point correctly? Virtually all 
> scanners degrade to green/blue mush at the dark end, but the more 
> competent ones do so at luminance values which are below those found in 
> the shadows. If so, you will be able to clip the black point to lose 
> the noise, yet not retain all or most of the image shadow detail.

Duh. Please remove that final 'not', in order for this comment to make 
sense.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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