Digital BW, The Print

My little Nikon SCS ED 4000 as do the 2 1/4 versions suck up a lot of
ram for such a small devices. You may want to try setting your ram
allocaton in Photoshop to 90% while you work on this and make sure
nothing else is running in the background (quit all other application
such as web browser etc) and like he said reset your history memory to
one.

Beyond that I have found that I have to clean every singe slide or
piece of film with a good film cleaner and a static free cloth before
working with this device, same as the Imacon really. I use the PEC-12
film cleaner becaue it works great, is archival, and leaves no fogging
or residue like some other cleaners do. Personally I wouldn't dream of
scanning with the Nikon without doing this. It is a hassle but I see
no way around it. I usually hate the digital ice filter because it
wrecks resolution but sometimes its the last resort.

I'm wondering though. If you took a greyscale file, converted it to
RGB, colorized it to a warm value would the digital ice filter work
then? If so you could then easily convert back to greyscale. Probably
not, but I'm not sure.

I would be really nice if they made one of those Kami mounted glass
carriers for the 35mm Nikons. 

John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wwodets"
<odets@c...> wrote:
> 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