Software Development Kit; What Is Hdr - Blackmagic Design Cintel Scanner Installations- Und Bedienungsanleitung

Software Development Kit

Blackmagic Design provides a free software development kit for your scanner. The SDK is
cross platform so your software can run on Mac, Windows or Linux. The SDK provides example
applications that let you control your scanner like in DaVinci Resolve, but from a command line.
You can use the Cintel Scanner SDK to develop software to control your scanner, change
settings, initiate scans, and process clips. DaVinci Resolve Studio is included with your scanner,
however, you can use the SDK to develop software to run your scanner on computers that
may not match recommended specification for DaVinci Resolve. For more information, see the
Developer page at www.blackmagicdesign.com/developer.

What is HDR?

High Dynamic Range, or HDR, is a technique of combining multiple images at different
exposures to extend the overall dynamic range of an image as well as to improve the noise
performance. The scanner performs HDR scanning in a two pass process. The first pass is
a scan at the normal exposure. The second pass is at a significantly higher exposure to give
more detail in the lowlights for prints or highlights for negatives. When the normal and high
exposures are blended, the result is a higher bit depth image.
Normal exposure pass on the left with the high exposure pass on the right
These images are scanned from the same frame and zoomed in to demonstrate the difference
between an HDR scan, shown on the left, and a standard scan shown on the right. The HDR
scan exhibits less noise, more accurate colors and better shadow and highlight detail.
The high precision HDR gates and the image stabilizer align the initial scan and high exposure
scan with sub pixel accuracy using a high quality resize filter, which creates an HDR clip free of
alignment artifacts.
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