Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V11 #53

["Lee Yan Zhan" <yzlee@cyberway.com.sg>]

Hi Debby,

Please try vuescan :

http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

It works perfectly with B&W and ICE.  Does slides like Kodachrome too.  Try
it and you may dump the Nikon Scan software.

Cheers,
Lee 
Fellow LUGGER from Singapore


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> From: Deborah Dion <dkdion@home.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V11 #53
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 9:39 PM
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Davison wrote:
> 
>  On the Nikon LS-2000, use of digital ICE to clean up flaws always seems
> to lead to visible degradation in the prints. For the highest quality
work I
> try to clean the negative thoroughly with compressed gas, and resign
myself
> to some digital spotting.  I have had miserable luck using digital ICE
with
> true black and white films--I think the algorithm confuses the grains
with
> surface defects. I've switched to chromogenic B&W films (T400 CN and
Ilford
> XP2) with better results.
> 
> 
> Mark: I, too, had miserable results with Digital Ice on my LS2000 and
true
> black and white film; I called Nikon and they informed me that it wasn't
> meant to work with B&W film. I just have been using canned air on the b&w
> negs before I scan; and minimal clean-up in photoshop. I find that the
> results are excellent with Leica glass, LS2000 film scanner, epson stylus
> 3000 and lyson inks (of course, paper matters also, I use Luminos
> preservation quality gallery gloss for color). I spent a lot of time with
> creating color sync profiles and find that I do not have to do much color
> correction. Anyway I do agree with you that digital darkroom produces
> excellent results.
> 
> Debby Dion