About dirty scans with LS4000.
Ls 4000 have some strange ability to dig out more "skit" dirt from the film
surface than other
scanners does. I have compared the same negative or slide with Imacon Photo
and the new Polaroid 120 scanner.
Look back and read earlier messages and conclusion about how LS 4000 shows
more dust and scratches but don't produce sharper scans than the Imacon
scanner.
There are no or minimal problem with dust inside the LS 4000 or LS2000
scanners. If you take a close look at your slide (put the slide in a
projector or microscope ) you find that the dust you have are in
the film
Best regards Mikael Risedal
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>From: Barbara & Martin Greene <martbarb@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
>Subject: filmscanners: Further report on dust problem in LS4000
>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 21:38:28 -0400
>
>I made a recent report in which I told of a technique for using Unsharp
>Mask
>in Photoshop to compensate for the softening caused by using ICE in the
>Nikon Super coolscan 4000. Despite this, I was still upset by the
>fantastic
>amount of all sorts of crud and spots that showed up on my scans, despite
>thorough cleaning. The fact is that, even after careful scrutiny using a
>lighbox and loupe, I could not see hardly any of this junk on the actual
>slides. Tony sleep said there was nothing inside the scanner for dust to
>settle on, and something like, "What goes in comes out." I contacted Nikon
>tech-support about this twice, and was told on both occasions that dust
>inside the scanner can definitly be a problem. They recommended that I
>either send in my two week old scanner for cleaning or return it to the
>dealer from whom it was purchased. Feeling tht maybe my dust problem is
>not
>as bad as I thought, and could thus do without ICE, I dedcided to return
>it.
>If I can find one, I might save lots of money and get the SS4000, or find
>out more about what the SS4000 Plus has to offer.
>
>Martin
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