Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Digital ICE: The High-Tech Dust Removal Found in Film Scanners" video.

  1. There was a GIMP addon that provided that capability some years before Adobe figured it out.
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  2. Thought: wouldn’t it be neat if you could get the “raw” RGB+infrared data from the scanner? Then you could apply a software-based equivalent of Digital ICE to the image on a PC, that you could interactively tweak by hand (e.g. apply only to certain areas) for the best results, rather than having the scanner do an automatic, not so smart, one-size-fits-all job.
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  3. This is why we have JPEG2000 now. The wavelet compression degrades more gracefully than DCT in old JPEG: it goes fuzzy instead of blocky/ringing.
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  4. 7:35 Well, the original photons destructively triggered chemical reactions in the film, which gave rise to other destructive reactions during development and duplication, and then a further set of reactions to print the slide. The end result being (you hope) that the final physical manifestation of those reactions will produce a similar effect on illuminating light as that which impinged on the original negative in the first place. Still think digital is so bad?
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