"LAURIE SOLOMON" wrote: "Preston, I have to wonder if time were money if you would actually save a whole lot by using dICE since using it often slows down the scan speed a great deal. If one cleaned one's film and dust out of the scanner, would one have to spend more than a minimal amount of time touching up dust on the film scans without dICE as compared to the amount of time a dICE scan would take? It make (might) be a toss up." ---------------------
I have my film processed at a one-hour lab, have prints made, and then scan the negatives. (I ask the lab not to cut the negatives and to be careful in handling them. The operators seem to be conscientious in trying to keep the negs clean and scratch-free.) I don't clean the negs beyond perhaps wiping them with a lint-free cloth, and I don't always do that. (It doesn't seem to make any difference.) Most rolls I have gotten back from a variety of labs seem dust-free, but the scanner still picks up a lot of tiny-to-small spots. The Polaroid D&SR filter takes care of the tiny ones, but it still takes a couple of minutes to clone or heal the larger ones. Plus, with the D&SR, I have to be conscious of artifacts created in the cleaning process, particularly in the specular highlights of the image. I don't know whether dICE would be faster or not, but I expect it would be a lot more fun. I did have one roll of old (circa. 2000) negatives I uncovered the other day, and when I scanned them, there were virtually no spots to be cleaned on any of the scans. It was so nice to be able to concentrate on color (and other image) issues only, and not have to go through each scan fixing the spots. Preston Earle [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
