Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

I certainly don't intend to start a "product war", but my experience with nik products is that, for the most part, they are genearlly overpriced and limited in use. For example, noise is better handled by products like NeatImage or Noise Ninja, IMHO. Much better control and cheaper to boot! Compare nik Sharpener Pro to something like FocalBlade for sharpening...again, IMO, no contest!

Alan Huntley

> 
> From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
> Date: 2004/01/05 Mon AM 10:54:39 EST
> To: "DigitalB&WPrint" <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Dfine grain & noise reduction
> 
> I may not know how to use the Dfine program, but my initial conclusion is
> that it is about like careful use of Photoshop blur tools.  When the grain
> is effectively reduced, the details are badly blurred.  So, my initial
> conclusion is that for film scans it is not close to being as effect a tool
> as the Nikon GEM feature and is not worth buying.