Photographic processing system

Abstract

The invention provides a processing system, comprising a detector to detect a unitary barcode on a film, the barcode identifying the film and a camera, thereby identifying a film/camera combination; and a memory to store a plurality of processing algorithms, one or more of the processing algorithms corresponding to a particular film/camera combination and being optimized in relation to one or more of the parameters of the respective film/camera combination; and a selector to select the corresponding processing algorithm on identification of the film/camera combination, to process optimally the film. The invention provides a system in which the use of custom designed algorithms specifically optimized for the film/camera or even film/camera-lens combination and the usage pattern of OTUCs, enables optimization of output images from the film to be obtained.

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