Hi, recently, I got access inhouse to a Nikon V ED, the 4000 dpi 35mm scanner. Although I prefer optical prints, I have to submit mostly digital files by now. Which is not a problem as I shoot digitally, but now I need to scan some of my older film. Before, I would have just had it printed A4 and submitted to the editor, and not care afterwards. Now, for various reasons, I have to scan it myself.
Apart from usual quirks with the software (why it doesn't come with SilverFast!), I am having some problems with scanner noise, or grain aliasing. More than I excepted, but on that later. What more, I got these weird black speckles in the luminance channel, leaving me dumbfounded. Please see http://3web.dkm.cz/members/fotof/temp/lumaspeckles.tif for 100% 4000dpi sample (L channel only). USM does accentuate them a lot. Anybody knows what it might be? I always scan with any sharpening turned off. ICE on, and both GEM and ROC disabled (I found the GEM feature to hoover extremely). Most of the speckles can be removed by Dust&Scratches filter, but at the expense of some specular detail, and it's just annoying to have to run another slow filter on the 16bit file... thanks for any suggestions. Good light! fra
