Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, anecdotally it may soften the image slightly. However I've read at least one reference recently that insists that it does not(except for the spots replaced with interpolated info). Now if I could just find that reference in my jumble here, I'll let you know. I have no personal experience with the Minolta, but my Nikon has ICE3 and you can select fine or normal levels of dust removal. I certainly find it a tremendous time saver post scan. I'm surprised to here that it lengthens your scan time so much. Assuming sufficient hardware and settings, are you scanning from within Photoshop, or as a standalone process? Maybe your best course might be to do a careful test comparison of two scans, with your own gear, of both time and output sharpness. As normal the scans are very likely to look a little soft before sharpening as a natural consequence of the scan conversion from a continuous tone original to a digital image. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Zeitlin Sent: Friday, 26 January 2007 02:47 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Re: Digital ICE Does digital ICE reduce the sharpness in scanning as well as eliminating the dust spots? I have started scanning a lot of color negatives with my Dimage 5400 film scanner and I seem to notice a slight deterioration in sharpness when ICE is used. Is it my imagination? Scanning with ICE takes about 4 times longer than scanning without ICE. Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information