Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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