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Re: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: New Nikon performance
Derek Clarke wrote:
>
> isaac@visi.net (Isaac Crawford) wrote:
>
> > Rob Geraghty wrote:
> > >
> > > Dave wrote:
> > > >Nikon scanners. Specifically, I'd like to find out whether scans
> > > >performed *without* ICE on the new scanners have the same problems
> > > >with excessive dust and scratches as on the old scanners, or if this
> > > >has been improved, and if so, by how much.
> >
> >
> > Hmmm... was the scanner *adding* the dust and scratches? I would
> rather
> > have a scanner that gets as much info off of the film as possible, and
> > if there are dust and scratches on the film, they should be resolved...
> > I'm funny that way...;-)
> >
> >
> > Isaac
>
> In a sense you could say that the Nikon scanners do add dust and
> scratches! To be exact any dust and scratches that are there are
> emphasised because of the LED light source that they use.
I guess my take is that the "adding" of dust is just a corollary to
having a really sharp scan... It's hardly the scanner's fault that there
is dust or damage to the film...
Isaac
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