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<h1>Re: SANE &amp; exposure times</h1>
<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
<i>Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:36:26 +0100 (GMT)</i>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Ewald R. de Wit wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Nick Lamb (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>) wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; There is a third option which won't have me (or anyone else) crying out</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; for the lost precision from messing about with my data in the backend,</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; while avoiding having to put the same code in every frontend...</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Like, how many frontends are there? It is easy to implement and if</i><br>
<i>&gt; it's not implemented then flatbed users won't miss a thing.</i><br>
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True, that's fine also -- I was just worried that people were going to<br>
run off with the last 8 bits of my precision, in the backend ;)<br>
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<i>&gt; My frontend *wants* to know about negatives. It wants to know the exact</i><br>
<i>&gt; film density and do stuff with it. I don't need no stinking proxy</i><br>
<i>&gt; mangling my pure raw scandata before it enters my precious enhance routines!</i><br>
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Proxies are of course, optional to the user, and potentially optional to<br>
a smart frontend too. The user can just pick the raw backend from the<br>
device-list, and no "stinking proxy" will get involved. Point taken anyway<br>
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<i>&gt; The disadvantages you mention are only when it's implemented in the</i><br>
<i>&gt; backend. The more I thought about it the more I felt that exposure time</i><br>
<i>&gt; correction should be in the frontend. Anyway I've implemented it in my</i><br>
<i>&gt; experimental frontend and it works great.</i><br>
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Cool. The only thing I wanted to avoid was unnecessary data-mangling in<br>
the backend. Creating/ modifying a frontend is a much better solution,<br>
and I hope eventually autofocus will work with the LS-30 here, so I can<br>
try some of this properly :)<br>
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Nick.<br>
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