Mamiya DM System, User Manual

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Chapter 1 - Basic info
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Chapter 11 - Using the software
removinG post-capture dust and spots
How to get rid of dust on the images
Dust is not uncommon when doing medium format photography. A lot can be avoided, by using air,
and keeping the protection plate on the back as clean as possible. Even so the chip creating the
image is by far too sensitive to not see a tiny, tiny dust particle.
Dust particles will appear to be unsharp. The Dust removal tool is created to find the unsharp edges,
and remove the dust particle perfectly by analyzing the underlying colors.
The dust removal tool is a part of the spot removal tool.
After selecting Dust removal tool in the Type drop-down menu, mark up the dust spots on the image
using the Spot cursor tool.
The size of the spot cursor tool can be adjusted by pulling the sides of the cursor tool circle or by
using the Radius slider; the dust removal circle is moved by placing the cursor inside the circle and
moving it.
Switch between the individual removal circles in the Spot drop-down menu. The active marking is
orange - this way you can change the size of a circle from dust to spot removal and adjust size.
When all dust particles are marked up and removed, it will save time to copy the dust removal filters
and paste into the rest of your images, as the dust particle normally do not move.