[filmscanners] Re: GRAIN/ICE SHOWDOWN: NikonLS8000vs.MinoltaScanMulti Pro!

["Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>]

Philip

I'm not sure how it helped, but when I looked at the scans at 800%+
enlargement, the pepper grain was less evident as the transition between the
adjacent pixels and the pepper grain pixels was smoother.  It was not so
much a case of one tone immediately going to the dark colour of the pepper
grain, more a smoother transition.

Don't know how it helped but It just seemed less evident in the image.

Simon

On 7/4/02 7:42 pm, "Philip Elkin" <philip.elkin@virgin.net> wrote:

> Hi Simon
>
> How does multisampling help with pepper grain? The clean with Vuescan IR
> works but surely Multisampling will only reduce ccd noise and improve
> tonality, not get ride of the specks which appear in the highlights etc on
> Provia.
>
> Regards
>
> Philip
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>
> To: <philip.elkin@virgin.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 4:09 PM
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: GRAIN/ICE SHOWDOWN: Nikon
> LS8000vs.MinoltaScanMulti Pro!
>
>
> To be honest David I had some very clean negs that didn't need any real
> cleaning so I did not use the IR cleaning under Vuescan.  I have heard
> people report varying amounts of success with it though.
>
> ICE is, as you say, impressive.  The major plus for me using Vuescan with
> multisampling was the reduction in the pepper grain apparent when scanning
> Fuji Provia film.  Someone on another forum has had a response from Fuji
> following the submission of some scans and they accept that the Multi Pro is
> picking up emulsion flaws and that they will investigate the cause of the
> pepper grain being on the emulsion.
>
> Now where is David S.  He got me wondering if I am choosing the best scanner
> now and he has gone silent on us ;-)
>
> Simon
>
> On 7/4/02 3:36 pm, "David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@gol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>>
>> I have definitely found that my negs scanned with much less noise/grain
>> using Vuescan rather than the Minolta software, and that multisampling
>> helped greatly.
>> <<<<<<<<
>>
>> How well did you fin IR cleaning in Vuescan to work with the Minolta? (I
>> found David S's ICE examples incredibly impressive. ICE is definately an
>> amazing trick.)
>>
>> David J. Littleboy
>> davidjl@topic.drift.com
>> Tokyo, Japan


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