Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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