Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W experiment and Noctilux portraits...
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:43:39 -0500
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At 12:55 PM 12/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>It's my understanding Nikon digital ice isn't effective with B&W because the
>ice reads the grain as dust or something like that. However, that's by word
>of mouth as I've not seen samples.

That's almost true.  The scanner reads the silver content as dust and tries 
to remove it.  That's why it won't work with B&W negative film or with 
Kodachrome which contains silver, too.


>But digital ice on colour apparently works amazingly well.

It does!  On everything except Kodachrome.

Tina


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