Oh, yes-- I forgot to mention. The Digital ICE was a major selling
point for me, on the Acer. Having used it for a while, my experience
has been that clean negatives, most of the time, eliminate the need.
I use a local photofinisher who does clean work (so far), I use a
Staticmaster brush on the negatives before putting them in the scanner
carrier, and keep the negatives in plastic sleeves (20th Century has
some nice ones that go into a ring binder, or else B&H sleeves off a
bulk roll), That does it for most, but the ICE is nice as a fallback.
I haven't noticed loss of definition, not with ViewScan nor with
Mirafoto, but it does take longer because of the extra pass involved.
The Acer does not perform multiple scans on a single pass, as do some
of the other scanners. It is my understanding that this is an issue
only if you have heavily overexposed negatives (or underexposed
transparencies); the multiple passes that may be required to get
adequate detail take a lot of time, and registration of the successive
images may be a problem.
and On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:59:07 +0100, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:25:32 -0500, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. wrote:
>> I would look at scanners with "Digital ICE" or other dust and scratch
>> removal features - e.g. the Nikons, some of the Minoltas, the Acer 2740, and
>
>I have been considering the Acer - have you used one?
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