Thats the thing. The image from the camera (when viewing on the computer) is fine. No signs of these lines at all. > If the only thing that changes is the image capture device, then the > image capture device is the source of the problem. You may have a > defective CCD on the digital camera. Lines in a digital image are > defects in the CCD; perfectly straight lines in a scanned film image > that are consistent from image to image and from film to film are > usually defects in the scanner (again, in the CCD of the scanner). > Non-perfect lines in a single roll of scanned film are usually scratches > on the film, and most lines on film come from lab carelessness during > development. If lines appear on many films from the same camera but not > on films from other cameras, there may be something in the camera that > is scratching the emulsion. > > There are some other remote possibilities, like unusual interpolation > artifacts in the printer (a possibility if you are getting the same > lines from two different digicams, especially if they both have the same > pixel dimensions). Another possibility is a defect in the printer that > is masked by the grain of most film scans but is easier to see against > the normally grainless backgrounds of digicam photos. It would have to > be extraordinarily subtle to show only on prints from digicam shots, > though.
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Re: [Digital BW] Digital cameras vs. Film Scanner
2003-11-09 by Matt Betea
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