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Re: [Digital BW] Vuescan and dust removal

2005-06-12 by Djon

> > Yes. Provided the scanner has an Infrared lamp, Vuescan can
> recognise dust and
> > scratches and retouch them. You can control how vigorously the
> cleaning is
> > done -- there are Light, Medium and Heavy options.
> > 
> > It works best with chromogenic negatives (C41) and
Ektachrome/Fujichrome
> > positives. Probably useless for silver black and white negatives and
> Kodachrome
> > positives.
> 
> IR grain/dust reduction with Kodachromes may not be quite so "useless"
> as popularly assumed. Although I don't have extensive experience
> --I've been able to use Vuescan's "Light" grain reduction quite
> succesfully with a number of 35 mm Kodachromes. 
> 

I'll have to try that again. Digital Ice seems not to work on
Kodachrome...maybe Vuescan's IR controls do the trick?

C41 B&W works. And apparently/reportedly Pyro-development's staining
allows Ice to work, so maybe Vuescan works on that.

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