> Beating a dead horse here, but a comment on this point. Yes, POV, as it 
> is, does
> allow such "filters". What concerns me in what appears to be the direction 
> of
> the new release is that many of these techniques seem to be either 
> deprecated or
> made so complicated and cumbersome to impliment they are in effect 
> impossible to
> use.

What specifically has changed?  You've always been able to put objects in 
front of the camera to mimic filters, in fact recently more features have 
been added to the camera to give much more flexibility.

> Especially "assumed_gamma" which I consider essential to the process but
> which some here have described as a kind of cheap and quick artistic 
> trick.

assumed_gamma is not meant to be used as an artistic tool, if you really 
want such an effect then just do some post-processing in Photoshop the same 
way you would with a real photo - it's much more flexible.

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