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Subject: [Leica] OT: VueScan help with Kodachrome
From: digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:04:25 -0500
References: <20100510225907.GI58063@selenium.125px.com> <C80EB3B7.62514%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

I've come to the same conclusion. Scanned a Kodachrome last night with
Nikon Scan 4 with Digital ICE turned on and the moire was CLEARLY
evident. Vuescan worked much better, almost no moire.

Jim

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT: VueScan help with Kodachrome)
In reply to: Message from tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray) ([Leica] OT: Vuescan help with Kodachrome)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT: VueScan help with Kodachrome)