On May 21, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Lately there have been specks in my scanned images as shown in this
JPEG:
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/x.jpg
Looks like the infamous pepper grain effect. It's apparently quite
common with hi-res scans and varies greatly with the type of film. I
found Provia 100F to be quite bad, and Kodak E100SW scanned very well.
As for general solutions, I don't know. A Scanhancer solved it for
me but that's only available for two Minolta scanners - it's built
into the 5400 and is available from its inventor for the Multi Pro
(the scanner he developed it for).
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/