Yes! dICE is the culprit. I'd tried most settings before
posting but never turned off the ICE because the film is
rather dirty and scrathed.
As for David's suggestions,
it is scanned with the rotation glass holder, and I pref
er the setting as color neg in RGB mode.
Thanks to Lau
rie, David, and
You cannot use dICE on silver halide based films. The silver is opaque
to IR light so it ends up trying to subtract your whole image, which it
assumes is dirt or surface damage.
Color films, of negative or positive types, chromagenic black and
white, have almost all silver left in them after the
I am not sure about this, but it is quite possible that this is a result of
using LED based scanners, such as the Nikon, on silver halide films; it also
might be a side effect of trying to use digital ICE silver halide films - if
you happen to have this feature turned on.
As I said, I am speculati
I'm facing problems scanning the Kodak 100TMX
black/white neg on the Nikon 8000, preview is somewhat o
k but not good, while the scan lost every detail, just bl
ack and white blotches, like severly solarized or that I
can't describe clearly in English. Please someone how to
cope with
