Re: filmscanners: VueScan Question

[EdHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/3/2001 10:55:46 AM EST, michael@shaffer.net writes:

> Unlike Nikons, doesn't this scanner insist the IR channel scan
>  separately from the RGB scan ... ie, a 2nd pass.  I thought the
>  original post was stating, if he wanted 16x RGB passes, it also
>  scanned the IR 16x.  There would indeed be no need for this.

There's no point to increasing the bit depth of the RGB data
if the IR data doesn't have the bit depth similarly increased.
The two are combined when doing dust removal.

This is why there are the same number of passes for the
RGB data as the infrared data.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick