Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@infoave.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Coolscan 5000 out of the box | At 07:54 PM 5/2/2004 +0200, you wrote: | >| Tina | >| | >I,m still wrestling with scanning so beforehand sorry for idiotic | >questions.But do you feel that hi rez scanning sometimes makes low light | >exposed film more grainy?I wondered if you scan low rez if you ever see | >the grain . | >simon jessurun | >p.s. thanks for earlier advice | | Simon - | | I scan everything at 4000 dpi. Grain doesn't bother me. I like grain, but | if you do want to lessen the grain, you can use the GEM part of Digital ICE | on all films. I read something interesting on the Luminous Landscape sight | about high-resolution scans of Fuji films. It seems that the | high-resolutions scans are picking up the film base of Fuji films and | showing it as pepper grain. Digital ICE completely removes the pepper | grain, but Kodak films don't show it at all because their film base is thinner: | | http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/film/fuji-pepper.shtml | | Since I leave the ICE turned on for all of my Fuji scans, I've never | noticed this. | | Tina | | | Tina Manley, ASMP | www.tinamanley.com | | Interesting article.I assumed that the infrared clean in Vuescan would do the same as digital ICE.I,ll reinstall nikon scan and do a check. Thanks simon jessurun