Oh, yes-- I forgot to mention. The Digital ICE was a major selling point for me, on the Acer. Having used it for a while, my experience has been that clean negatives, most of the time, eliminate the need. I use a local photofinisher who does clean work (so far), I use a Staticmaster brush on the negatives before putting them in the scanner carrier, and keep the negatives in plastic sleeves (20th Century has some nice ones that go into a ring binder, or else B&H sleeves off a bulk roll), That does it for most, but the ICE is nice as a fallback. I haven't noticed loss of definition, not with ViewScan nor with Mirafoto, but it does take longer because of the extra pass involved.
The Acer does not perform multiple scans on a single pass, as do some of the other scanners. It is my understanding that this is an issue only if you have heavily overexposed negatives (or underexposed transparencies); the multiple passes that may be required to get adequate detail take a lot of time, and registration of the successive images may be a problem. and On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:59:07 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:25:32 -0500, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote: >>�I would look at scanners with "Digital ICE" or other dust and scratch >>�removal features - e.g. the Nikons, some of the Minoltas, the Acer 2740, and > >I have been considering the Acer - have you used one? -- http://www.geocities.com/smprastein
