Scanning Fiche

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Andrew Davie wrote: It works. I wrote software a year or so ago to improve the quality of images captured from an NTSC source (like from a video camera). It works this way, and is best for neutralizing colour artifacts, although it also improves the general picture quality a fair amount in doing so. Basically for a still, live source, you can oversample a video "frame" a number of times and since the colour artifacting is essentially random, by compositing them you can eventually get an output image that converges to clean. I did this so to facilitate photographic inventorying of my collection. I didn't relish the thought of developing and scanning hundreds of photographs. Currently it only works for SGI-format .rgb images, as this is what is produced by the tools I use. If somebody else thinks this could actually be a wortwhile piece of software I could be persuaded to extend it to work on .tiff or other image formats and distribute it. My big problem is it makes the optical flaws in the lens and CCD of my Hi8 camera all too apparent. (: ok r.