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Dust removal

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Jochen Kratschmer

I appreciate the dust removal being automized. So far quite useful. One major drawback: Sensor noise is also cleared away leaving noiseless circles and they show. In order to work properly the sensor noise in the area of the removed dust needs to be restored.

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  • Official comment
    Alexander
    Product Manager

    Hi all,

    The new rendering algorithm for Dust Removal is now released and the feature is no longer in beta. Please try it out, it's available in v16.2.3.

    Alexander

  • Alexander
    Product Manager

    Hi Jochen,

    Thanks for the post! We are actively working on improving this part of the tool. Are you happy with sharing some RAW files we can use to test the tool with internally?

    Alexander

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  • Jochen Kratschmer

    Here are two files for you to test. Enjoy!
    https://magentacloud.de/s/MT5TXSDAZ8oPq28

    If the new automatic dust removal can clear these it'll be close to perfection. Dust spots over fine structures like twig silhouettes are going to be tough as well. But the mirrorless cameras with the sensor being exposed at every lens change have brought back a problem that was almost not existent anymore.

    Jochen

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  • Alexander
    Product Manager

    Hi Jochen,

    Just to give you an update on the progress, here's an example of the current Dust Removal with the visible traces compared to what we are working on:

    Alexander

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  • Jochen Kratschmer

    Looks really good! Looking forward to try it out myself.

    Jochen

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  • Eduard Swoboda

    Hi Alexander,

    now seeing your result...quite small but is there a way you could share it?

    Eduard

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  • Alexander
    Product Manager

    Hi Eduard,

    You can right-click the image, click "copy image address" and paste it into a new browser tab. Then you get the image in it's original size.

    Alexander

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  • Eduard Swoboda

    Ah okay... much better... to be straight - I still wouldn’t approve it for our library but much much better.

    Well done... I don’t get that results on mu version yet...

    Eduard

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  • Alexander
    Product Manager

    Hi SFA,

    The change in 16.2.3 only improved the rendering. Currently, there is a limit of 200 dust spots. There are a few reasons for having a limit, both performance and architecture wise in the code. With the introduction of the auto dust removal, we actually doubled the limit from 100 to 200.

    We haven't seen many images with more than 200 dust spots but it can of course occur! We will keep an eye on it.

    Alexander

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