Although I have no empirical knowledge of this, it has been noted that
the newer form of dICE has eliminated most of the softening process.
Having studied a few scans which were done with the original dICE and
the IR channel from that process, I concluded that the softening was a
result of
It occurred to me to wonder whether some of the softness in the use of ICE
or infra-red cleaning may be due to the difference in focus needed. If
you take photos with IR film, you have to set the focus differently to visible
light. If the difference is significant in a scanner light path, maybe
