It occurred to me to wonder whether some of the softness in the use of "ICE" or infra-red cleaning may be due to the difference in focus needed. If you take photos with IR film, you have to set the focus differently to visible light. If the difference is significant in a scanner light path, maybe this accounts for some of the softness when removing dust and scratches?
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