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Re: [APML] Registar (was: Curing vignetting)
RegiStar is available at www.aurigaimaging.com
You can download a trial version and then license it via the net if you like
it.
Bert
Bert Katzung
San Rafael, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Stecker" <mstecker@earthlink.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Friday, 23 June, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Registar (was: Curing vignetting)
>
>
> Philip Perkins wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > I know what you are saying - that $150 seems quite a bit for a program
that
> > basically just registers with some limited composition functions. In
fact
> > based on the original evaluation program I probably wouldn't have
purchased
> > it. But then Rajiv modified the evaluation program so that I could save
> > the images I had registered. This enabled me to see a few things: the
> > great registration accuracy of the program, the great time saving, and
also
> > complete removal of the human element. In other words I would be
assured
> > of very fast registration coupled with best possible accuracy across the
> > entire image in all circumstances, with no dependence on accuracy of
> > manually set registration points. When I realised all of these things
the
> > cost suddenly became immaterial and I immediately ordered it without
even
> > bothering to check the exact cost :) In fact I probably would still
have
> > ordered it if the cost had been $300 or so!! :) The cost suddenly paled
> > into insignificance compared to the huge time saving and guarantee of
best
> > possible registration accuracy in all circumstances.
> >
> > In fact I don't use Registar for any composition at all - I just do the
> > register, save the registered image, and then quit Registar. I do all
of
> > the actual composition in Photoshop. So for me I guess that the $150
> > should be even worse value! :)
> >
> > But I look at it this way - in PW I often had around 25 registration
> > points. I used to keep going around and around these registration
points
> > making fine adjustments trying to improve the alignment. Then I
realised I
> > had got tired and so I would go around all of the 25 points a couple
more
> > times. All of this took a huge amount of time - sometimes I would spend
> > two hours or so on just one registration. Then I would need to do a
> > 4-stack, and for me a 4-stack is actually 7 registrations (each negative
is
> > scanned twice, one upright, one inverted, and the two scans are
blended).
> > So one image often turned into a multi-day job. Now with Registar those
> > dreaded multi-hour registrations are just a 5 minute job with no human
> > intervention at all - I just go away and grab some coffee while it is
doing
> > its job, and when I come back I know I have a registration that is more
> > accurate than I could ever achieve in PW. To me that was definitely
worth
> > a few hundred $$! :)
> >
> > Sorry this got a bit long winded, but anyway I hope it helped explain
the
> > rationale..
> >
> > --Philip
> >
> >
>
> Hello Philip:
> The Registar sounds like a very useful and time saving software. Do
they
> have a web site? Where can you buy it?
> Unlike you I get perfect registration of negatives with Picture
Window in
> 5-10 minutes every time. I only use 4 points with both 35 mm and 120
color
> film. I have never had a failure with PPF registration with both 120 and
35 mm
> film and Kodak Photo CD scans (and I do not purge my Pentax 6x7 with
nitrogen).
> The only failures I have had are from the old Imacon ( I call it "I've
been
> conned") scanner Tony Hallas used to use. Fortunately, he replaced the
scanner
> and now gets get good results. The ultimate test for registration would
be
> tricolor (which I do not do anymore). Perhaps Chuck Vaughn could run a
test on
> the tricolor negatives that he found difficult to register in PW. That
would be
> the ultimate test of quality registration.
>
> Michael Stecker
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