Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Digicam for a Leica photographer
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:23:52 -0500

Hi Tina,

> The Digilux's greatest failing, to me, is the noise in
> the higher
> speeds.  There are several programs that can fix that.

Er, well....hum.  "Fix" isn't really what I'd say these programs do (yes, I
know it's a bit anal).  Fix, to me, would imply that the noise was
corrected...as in, made correct.  That's not what happens.  Anytime you
postprocess an image as these programs do, they more doctor than fix.  The
"fidelity" (meaning accuracy of reproduction) of the image may in fact be no
better, but it simply "appears" better because it removes what would appear
as visual aberrations in image data.

Kind of like dust spot removal.  You can't replace the dust spot with the
actual image information, but you can guess at what it might have been...and
that usually does a pretty good job.

Regards,

Austin

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