When I tried Ice on silver B&W negs, the slide often came out blank or nearly blank (all white).
IMO, it is much better than the Canon FARE that came with the scanner I now use. FARE can't deal with hairs or scratches, and adds artifacts in the shadow areas of slides. Fare on "strong" is useless on slides.
Ed Hamrick has an IR based dust removal system in Vuescan that I think works quite well. Much better than FARE, and you can configure the promgram to show you what areas are detected as defects by the IR so you can see what will be "cleaned" off the slide.
- MCC
At 09:22 AM 1/17/2004 -0800, you wrote:
The other day I saw how Digital Ice can remove imperfections when scanning. What wasn't clear to me is whether using DI in any way "softens" the image. As it was explained to me, it shouldn't, but the fellow doing the explaining was new to the technique himself, so I thought I'd ask here.
Also, I've heard the DI does not work well with conventional B&W negatives. Is that the case? And, while on the subject of B&W negatives, is it true that B&W does not scan well? Last year I scanned quite a few B&W negatives and they looked fine to my uneducated eye.
The scanner used in both situations was the Nikon Coolscan IV ED super duper high end model, 4000dpi (sorry, I can't keep track of all the model numbers).
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