Just possibly because you don't have room for a traditional darkroom.
At 04:46 PM 8/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
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>Subject: OT: Digital Ice + Kodak TMZ
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> > Hi everyone,
> > I have just tried to scan a BW (TMax 3200) film, and it seems
>that
> > leaving the digital ICE (this is Nikon 4000ED scanner) turns
>the scans
> > to literally, black and white (and almost no any intermediate
>greys)!
> > Switching IR cleaning off turns the pictures back to normal.
>Any ideas
> > of what may go on? Does silver absorb all the IR making
>scanner thing
> > that there's nothing but dirt?
>
>We have the same problem with digital ice. It seems that it
>doesn't deal with the reflectivity of a silver halide image.
>Nikon documentation indicates that digital ice is not usable
>with silver halide images.
>
>It would seem there are limits to what Nikon can acomplish.
>
>The $64,000 question is, why would you want to scan black and
>white film in the first place?
>
>William Robb
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