Digital BW, The Print

The ICE does not work at all on B&W negs. However if
you use Lasersoft Silverfast scanning software there
is a "Remove Dust and Scratches" filter which helps.

My solution is to use fuji color slide film and then
convert to B&W. You get excellent grain structure and
have the full benefit of ICE which in terms of time
savings in the workflow is more than worth the
difference in film cost (plus you have the benefit of
a beautiful color slide.

Hope this helps
Woody Spedden

--- wwodets <odets@...> wrote:


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I am scanning 35mm negatives with a Nikon 5000. 
Though the film is 
squeaky clean to the eye, the scanned images are
filled with spots 
and linear scratches.  At 100% view, panel by panel
(page 
down/control-page down) I am spending three to four
hours spotting 
these images.  The healing brush is a tremendous
advantage, though on 
this dual XEON computer with 1 gig of ram it is rather
slow, 
requiring hesitation between spots to allow the image
to update.  
I've tried spotting at a 50% view and it just isn't
good enough 
(spots come back to haunt you, particularly after
sharpening) though 
it's much faster.  

A few other related issues:

Digital ICe doesn't work and the BW film, but might it
work on the XP-
1 I used later in my career?

I am doing noise reduction (Neat Image) before
spotting and 
sharpening much later in the flow.

Any experience or thoughts on all this?

Thanks,
Walt





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