Jack, Thanks for the input. It's great to have folks from industry participating again in this forum.
Jim Sims Jack Phipps wrote: >Actually, Digital ICE works quite well with most Kodachrome film. >There are certain images that are troublesome. Certain batches of film >with a lot of cyan are the most serious cuprites. For example I >scanned an image of a man wearing a dark navy colored cap. Of course >there was a high density of cyan in the cap. Unfortunately the cap had >yellow lettering on it. The yellow lettering was the only part of the >image that was affected when correcting the image using the infrared >defect map. It was also unfortunate that the image was covered with >many fine scratches and other very visible surface defects. The >fastest way to solve the problem was to scan the image twice and >"bring back" the lettering on the cap with a layer mask in an image >editor. The lettering on the cap was an important part of the image >otherwise I would have left it alone. > >My workflow is to scan Kodachrome with Digital ICE on. If I notice >artifacts around high densities of cyan, rescan with Digital ICE off. >If there are a lot of defects, I combine the two (or I go down the >hall and use a Nikon 9000). If there is any fading or color imbalance, >then I apply Digital ROC. > >The other choice is to purchase a new Nikon 9000 that does scan >Kodachrome quite effectively. However, I don't think that the Nikon >9000 meets the requirement of inexpensive. The Nikon 5000 and the >Nikon V also perform better with Kodachrome than the older models but >not as well at the 9000. > >Jack Phipps >Kodak's Austin Development Center >Formerly, Applied Science Fiction > >On 7/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>My only suggestion is that whatever you do, you should do it with >>>>Digital ICE enabled. You will want to use the scans as is and not >>>>screw around trying to remove dust from the images (other >>>> >>>> >>>than a couple >>> >>> >>>>blasts from your Dust Off before you scan). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Except that theoretically Digital ICE doesn't work with >>>Kodachrome (although some have reported it working ). Image >>>apparently not fully transparent in the IR channel. >>> >>> >>Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal. >> >>http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html >> >> >>-- >>This message has been scanned for viruses and >>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>believed to be clean. >> >> >> >> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
