------ > > Having a few niggles with an 848 imacon here and wondering if anyone had > > experience similar. Thousands of tiny black spots..... quite simply. Visable at 200% and noticable at 100%. If i apply any global USM they become very apparent. I have seen it with RVP, in particular, and only with colour positive film. I should add that on every occasion the film has come directly from the lab.
An image which light tonally, or has any skin, is unusable, in my opinion, while these dots appear. When scanning I set the USM to zero and apply a limit of 40 to flextouch. ----- > do the specs appear in the same place on subsequent scans? > > if they are in the same place, its dirt embedded in the emulsion, a problem > I had with neg film (showing as white spots) when I had it processed at > METRO, showing up at its worse with even blue skys. Flextouch sorted this > out, without degrading the scan overly. And I shifted labs to Isis. It was a > problem with the final wash(&rinse?) not being changed regularly. I knew of > other people who had the same problem at the time. > > I found different scanning resolutions need different flextouch settings, > and previewing the result using the detail function, you could tailor the > result. > > Imacon sharpening is at zero supposedly when set to -120 > Michael W Hi Micheal, I will test further with your suggestions and see how the problem progresses. Interestingly enough the problem films have come from the same lab, which is different to my normal one... Thanks a bunch...BTW have you found a safe maximum settinf for flextouch? kind regards, Alan =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
