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RE: [Digital BW] Excessive grain in scanned images

2002-01-27 by Austin Franklin

> the new scanners come with ICE and GEM. GEM is supposed to totally
> remove grain. Anyone know for sure if this works?
>
> Jerry

Hi Jerry,

The Nikon scanners HAVE to come with ICE because they are point light source
scanners, which exaggerates scratches, dust and grain.  Other scanners don't
need it, and I don't know any other than Nikon that come with it.  I don't
know about GEM though.

Austin

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