"Howard Grill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: >>>>>>>>>>>
How effective are products like Grain Surgery, Neat Image and Noise Ninja at removing what appears to be film grain after sharpening images scanned at 4000 ppi. My 35mm film is scanned on a Polaroid SS4000 Plus and taken on Velvia and Provia...so the film is fine grained. But I still find the grain I see after scanning and processing as objectionable when I am making large inkjet prints to 13x19 inches. The grain does not appear to be problematic at 8x10 type sizes. <<<<<<<<<< NeatImage is quite effective at cleaning up 4000 dpi scanned Velvia 50 and Reala noise, and I'd expect the others to be as well. Even if grain isn't objectionable in the print, a pass with noise reduction can make your sharpening more effective, so it really is worth it. The more recent versions of NeatImage are said to be faster, but the version I tried took over 30 minutes for a 645 frame. Ouch. Still, very much worth trying. Most have free demo or home versions you can play with. David J. Littleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
