Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 20/9/00 3:20 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > >> >> hah, but the Polaroid doesn't have the ICE mechanism :-) >> >> Pascal >> NO ARCHIVE >> > True....and the ICE software is utterly useless for Black and White....so, > for some of us, better the higher resolution than the software we can't > use...;-) For some reason my negs are really clean at the moment. Literally one or two dust spots, if that, and the very very occasional watermark. I don't even bother to clean them before scanning. I think it has to do with where I dry them (the basement... very very still air, no dust). So anyway the ICE thing doesn't bother me, and as BD points out it doesn't work on silver films. Slides get gunky pretty quickly though and I can see ICE having a value there. Diehard grainsniffers will object that it softens the scan... swings and roundabouts I guess. However, I'm increasingly tending to simply use the scan software to get the raw image into the maching and then doing all the corrections myself (cropping/inversion/gamma/bw points etc) in 16-bit in Photoshop. This is actually quicker than fiddling with the scanner controls, much as ***HERE COMES THE LEICA CONTENT*** using a Leica M can often be faster than doing battle with an multimode automatic. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com