Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodachrome
From: John Bean <john@jbean.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:00:10 +0100
 
Gerry,

Tina is absolutely correct in telling you that it is Nikon's "Digital ICE" 
that effects the Kodachrome scans, in much the same way it effects scans of 
silver-based negatives. Nikon are staying quiet about it, but it only works 
acceptably on dye-based images.

It isn't the scanner that has a problem, it's Nikon's software. Alternative 
software such as Ed Hamrick's Vuescan (http://www.hamrick.com) may not look 
as pretty in the user interface department, but is way ahead of Nikon in 
many other respects. It scans Kodachromes and silver-based negatives fine, 
with "cleaning" turned on.

I use both programs, as appropriate to the image source.

At Sunday 16/04/2000 08:31, Gerry Walden wrote:

<snip>
>go back.   Sadly, that is the current situation for me but I am told by Tina
>Manly it is OK as long as you keep the 'Clean Image' software turned off.
<snip>


Regards

John Bean