[filmscanners] Re: Color Misregistration (EspeciallyPolaroidSprintscan 120)

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

The Polaroid Dust and Scratch software uses some quite ingenious
algorithm rather than relying on any IR scan.  It is a post scan process.

Art

Bernie Kubiak wrote:

> FWIW, I recently scanned some old (as in 40 years) Kodachromes and used
> the Polaroid Dust and Scratch filter for clean up.  Apparently that
> issue with dICE doesn't hold true for the Polaroid software.
>
> ---------clever sig line----------
> I'm too old to die young....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:34 PM
> To: bkubiak@attbi.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Color Misregistration (Especially
> PolaroidSprintscan 120)
>
> <snip>
>
>   Unfortunately, when it comes to film that dICE cannot be used with
> (films which have high levels of residual silver, such as true black and
> white films and some Kodachromes) you have no dICE to help you, but you
> still have the same problem with the lighting causing significant grain
> exaggeration and the same for dust, dirt and scratches.
>
> To appease the people who have been brainwashed into thinking they "must
> have" dICE, mainly due to people using scanners that really require it
> warning people how necessary it is, Polaroid developed a Dust and
> Scratch filter which is quite effective, but usually completely
> unnecessary.  It is available free for PC users, I don't know if a Mac
> version will exist or not.
>
> <snip>
>
>


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