[ale] This Group is Da Bomb! (was OT:Recommended scanners)

[aaron]

It's so nice having ALE mail coming in again!

Where else are you going to get totally esoteric, eclectic and
eccentric techno-geek factoids like "the Nikon film scanners
used an infrared channel to detect and remove dust and
scratches" ???

You GOTTA love it!

:-)
peace
aaron

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:25, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Film scanning and Linux have not gone well together. 
> 
> I'm not sure who all's scanners have this feature, but one thing about 
> the Nikon units that was noteworthy was that the images used an infrared 
> channel, whose purpose was to get an image of any dist or scratches on 
> the film.  That channel was then used to interpolate the other color 
> channels to mask out the defects in software. 
>