Digital BW, The Print

David, I'll admit to not have done a boat load of scans of B&W with my Nikon
9000, but I have seen some good ones and some not so good scans from it. The
scans that I made with the Imacon several years back may be better for B&W.
Noise reduction techniques that I use are copy to new layer, then run Neat
Image, or perhaps Gassiun Blur with grain  added sometimes. I haven't had to
deal with that much scan noise as poor digital capture noise in customer
provided files. 

 

Eric

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David
Keenan
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:39 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: speckly, grainy shadows, eliminating

 

>I suspect you are using a ccd scanner like a Nikon...

>What is the scanner, is it a true 5400 ppi optical?

The scans were done with the first version Minolta 5400 dedicated film
scanner. So, yes, it is true 5400 dpi optical.

>...you said that the scans were "virtually grainless." 

I didn't write what I meant to... I meant to write that I "expected the
images to be virtually grainless" since I was scanning Ilford Pan F film.

I played some with the PS CS2 "despeckle" filter that was helpful. I
selected the shadow area and performed this filter 6 to 10 times. The
sharpness in the area was reduced, of course, but since this was in a shadow
area that didn't matter much.

But I am still interested other people's experiences in noise reduction.

(Again, I do not want to rescan.)

Dave.

 



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