Great info ... thanks! I've tried Vuescan a couple of times, but it always crashes my computer to hang up or Photoshop to crash. It's happened with two or three versions of the program. I'd really like to try it.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Hot pixels become more visible as exposure times lengthen: I have a > few on my DS that surface with exposure times approaching 2 seconds. > > There are three solutions to hot pixels: Noise Reduction in the > camera, hot pixel removal in the RAW converter, and cloning in post- > conversion image processing. All three work very well ... cloning is > a manual process and can be time consuming, however. > > Vuescan's raw conversion does not do hot pixel removal, where > Photoshop + Camera Raw does. You can see the differences in the no-NR/ > NR comparison photo I posted a few weeks ago: > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/straight-NR-comp.jpg > > Left-most is NR off and processed with Vuescan: it's the only one the > hot pixels are visible in.
