filmscanners: Nikon 8000 and ICE/ROC: are they really so bad???

[Andrea de Polo <andrea@alinari.it>]

Title: Nikon 8000 and ICE/ROC: are they really so bad???

Hello,

as you can see from the post below from another mailing list, DIGITALSILVER, bad reports are giving to the Nikon 8000 and the ICE cleaning sw. It is really true also on some of you, or this matter has now been fixed? I would like to know that since I would like to consider to buy the Nikon 8000 REALLY for the ICE and ROC features!!!!

Cheers; Andrea

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From: Moreno Polloni <mp@dccnet.com>

The ICE and GEM features didn't seem very important to me either, but now
that I have the scanner, I use them often enough to consider them essential.
They really do save a lot of time. No matter how well I clean the images
beforehand, there's always a few specks that sneak in.

The banding with the 8000 (in my experience) has never occured during
straight scans, but only when ICE or multi-sampling is enabled. NikonScan

3.2 is due soon and hopefully that will help.

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From: Tim Spragens <t.spragens@cityweb.de>

Bad news, Lawrence, sorry to hear it. Has anyone had difficulties
with the Polaroid? The cleanup hardware/software of the Nikon
aren't so much of an interest to me, but good, reliable straight
scans are. I was hoping the Nikons would be flowing out now,
allowing more comparisons between the two.

Tim

> I can't speak for anyone else but I've had 2 8000's and they both had

> banding issues.  The second one has been at Nikon repair for almost 2
> weeks now and is as they say 'still on the bench'.  needless to say,
> I'm not too happy at this point.  That damn thing had better work
> correctly when it get returned to me or Nikon is going to get more

> than an ear full...

>