Alan Tyson wrote:
I don't think I've made myself clear.
I *think* they may be identifying relatively underexposed
*regions* boosting the (printed) brightness locally in
just those areas of the image, giving the same effect as
wet-chemical-age dodging. Art suggested a means of doing
Is this well-known technology? If it isn't simple contrast
reduction, and if it's identifying shadow areas accurately,
I'd like a simulation of this mask as a filter, added to
Vuescan and other scanning software, to avoid hours of
labour with selection tools, and selective histogram
Is this well-known technology? If it isn't simple contrast
reduction, and if it's identifying shadow areas accurately,
I'd like a simulation of this mask as a filter, added to
Vuescan and other scanning software, to avoid hours of
labour with selection tools, and selective histogram
a good method for doing it
automatically.
I posted two films to Bonusprint today, to see for myself.
Alan T
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Subject: Re: filmscanners: Selective LCD masks in colour
'Bonusprint', a mass-market photoprocessor in the UK, got
top marks in a recent review in 'Which?' consumer magazine,
so I looked at their web site (http://www.bonusprint.com/).
It says their Agfa Dimax printing machines use a
computerised LCD mask to reduce local contrast...
"Our Dimax
