[filmscanners] Re: Polaroid Dust and Scratch Removal

["myles" <dryden@mgt.gla.ac.uk>]

Date sent:              Wed, 22 May 2002 03:37:24 -0700
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From:                   "Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>
To:                     dryden@mgt.gla.ac.uk
Subject:                [filmscanners] Re: Polaroid Dust and Scratch
Removal

> I have not installed the release version of this software yet, but I
> worked with it in several versions in beta for months, and spent many
> long nights helping it along to its final version 1.0.
>
> This software is not a replacement for IR cleaning, but then again it
> doesn't really need to be on a Polaroid scanner.  After all, Polaroid
> scanner simply do not suffer from the problems that Nikon's manifest
> from dust and scratches, so why should it be designed to fix Nikon's
> problems?
>
> I think it is rather nice of Polaroid to have decided to give this plug
> in/stand alone for free to anyone who downloads it, regardless of the
> scanner type (of course, that could change if too many non-Polaroid
> clients start downloading it, who knows)  I can tell you that a lot of
> time and effort went into coding, beta testing and debugging it.

Does it make any sense for  Epson Flatbed scanners ?

Myles

> The principle advantages of this over dICE, are:
>
> 1- it's free, and added no cost to the scanner, and retrofits to all
> previous scanners
> 2- once you get to understand it, it is faster than dICE

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