Digital BW, The Print

The digital ICE in the LS-8000 works by using an infrared channel to detect
the opaque dust, then blends the surrounding pixels over it.  Pretty cool if
you ask me…

Best regards,
John Moody

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of john dean
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:26 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Feedback on dust and scratches?

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





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