RE: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available

["Sumtingwong" <Sumtingwong@hawaii.rr.com>]

Any chance of making this a PS plug-in?

Spencer Stone

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Hersch Nitikman
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:59 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: VueScan 6.6 Available


It sounds like you have a basis for a potentially valuable patent there
yourself. Good luck to you.
Hersch

At 12:04 PM 01/31/2001 -0500, you 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