Yes.
The new Fuji Provia F series of films use what I would refer to as a
"soft edged" grain, which, in effect is "antialiased" to begin with.
This provides a softer transition and is similar to defocusing the grain
slightly.
Velvia, on the other hand, while slow and fine grained and great for
Test only - ignore please.
George Harrison
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I don't know how Vuescan works, but in NikonScan, once you've done an
autofocus, you can bump the focus slider manually. Since there's already an
uncertainty of at least a half a count, I'd try bumping it by two, to see if
that helps.
However, I'm not sure defocusing will reduce aliasing, because
You are correct. Once the errors have been incorporated into the file
data, it takes some much bigger crayons to hide them. ;-)
Art
George Hartzell wrote:
> Tony Sleep writes:
> > [...]
> > With all aliasing the easy cure is to degrade the frequency of image
> > information so that it falls
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:28:39 -0700 George Hartzell
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I think that it can make a big difference between whether you degrade
> the frequency of the image before/while it's scanned (e.g. defocusing
> the scanner) or whether you try to blur in photoshop.
>
> When you do it