While I am not seeking to challenge the validity of your claim for Digital
ICE, I do question your offering it as a solution to a user's problem when
you know that the user cannot get Digital ICE as a separate application and
that not every scanner has an infrared channel so as to enable the user to
make use of Digital ICE even if it were available as a stand alone
application. In some cases, you are suggesting - nay, recommending - the
user buy a new scanner that has your product bundled with it if the user
happens not to have a scanner that came with Digital ICE.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Jack Phipps
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:23 PM
To: 'filmscanners@halftone.co.uk'
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)
>Hopefully I'll be able to remove the fingerprint with some careful
>use of the cloning tool.
Digital ICE should solve this problem for you.
Jack Phipps
Applied Science Fiction
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Geraghty [mailto:harper@wordweb.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 6:26 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Cleaning slides (PEC tips)
Jim wrote:
> PEC 12 ONLY cleans grease- based stains. It does not clean water-
> based stains. It will remove a fingerprint but not hard water
> stains, for example. This point has not been made yet, so I
> decided to add to this growing thread.<g>.
FWIW I tried to remove a fingerprint from a film strip yesterday only to
find that it's embedded in the emulsion. The operator at the lab must have
put their fingerprint on the film while the emulsion was wet. :( In their
defense, it was right on the end of the film where an image *shouldn't*
have been, but the camera had squeezed another image onto the end of the
strip. Hopefully I'll be able to remove the fingerprint with some careful
use of the cloning tool.
Rob
Rob Geraghty harper@wordweb.com
