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Mike M. Miskulin · Guest

(supercedes orignal post which I have cancelled)

My saga of failure with this program continues. Version 8.1.9 as a
few others have commented apparently does not correctly align the
scanner in IR vs regular mode which results in the cleaning corrections
being misplaced (I previously thought this was an issue with higher
resolution scans, it just wasnt as apparent on the lowres scans).

I was hopeful when I saw version 8.1.11 which lists 'improved epson
4870 IR cleaning'. Yeah right. Now I have complete crap. If my tone
is poor its because of the hours I've wasted on this program.

So Mr. Hamrick if you are reading this then please look at these
two screen captures I've made this morning, one from 8.1.11 and the
other from 8.1.9 They show *just* the IR view and *just* the IR
data. The same options file was loaded for both versions.

http://www.westnet.com/~darkstar/vuescan/

You can see in 8.1.9 that just the dust is picked up, and that is
all that is displayed

You can see in 8.1.11 that:

not all the dust is picked up
it is displaying some part of the original image
it is picking up things that arent dirt (trees)

And as a result, not only are the ouptput images not 'cleaned' but
they are now blurred too in the areas that shouldn't be cleaned. In
fact, it looks like an application of strictly software based dust removal
such as is available in Silverfast SE. Comparing SF SE w/ 'dust removal'
to this Vuescan image shows remarkable similarity. Basically correcting
what shouldn't be, and not doing what should.

Note also that I reinstalled 8.1.9 *after* making the capture from
8.1.11 and it functions just as it did previously - imprecise but
at least its trying to do the correct thing.

I've basically chalked this program up to $100 down the drain. Can
anybody recommend another program that will use the IR channel to
clean the image without going through the whole Digital ICE thing
and that works with the 4870? While ICE works great it takes forever;
had Vuescan worked as advertised (for me) its IR cleaning would have
been enough on the majority of negatives that won't be printed larger
than 8x10.

Thanks

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