Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I've come to the same conclusion. Scanned a Kodachrome last night with Nikon Scan 4 with Digital ICE turned on and the moire was CLEARLY evident. Vuescan worked much better, almost no moire. Jim On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> On May 10, 2010 at 04:42 PM -0500, James Laird wrote: >>> Tim, >>> >>> I thought Digital ICE didn't work with B+W (non-chromogenic) or >>> Kodachrome. Am I wrong? >> >> It half works on Kodachrome. ?Doesn't work on B+W. ?Can't imagine >> Vuescan's >> cleaner works any better on those either since it uses the same hardware >> in >> the scanner. ?The scanner has an extra infrared channel that sees dust and >> scratches as a different density as the base negative (or something along >> these lines). ?Silver screws this up. ?Of course, I haven't really tried >> it >> in a long time, so maybe Hamrick is doing something else now. ?I'll try it >> tonight. >> >> I have a sample of Kodachrome that I just scanned last night that most >> definitely shows ICE cleans most of the dust, at the expense of a couple >> of >> small artifacts. ?I did not scan in Vuescan - again, I'll try it tonight >> and >> report back. >> > > > I've never seen Digital ICE NOT degrade an image to a point where I found > it > useable. After my first month of scanning I never used it again. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >