[filmscanners] Re: Black and white scans on LS4000 ED and otherissues

["Don Marcotte" <donmarcotte@shaw.ca>]

I had a similar problem with a negative recently. My Minolta Scan Elite
showed what appeared to be far off birds in a harbour shot. A closer look
revealed it was spots and a close inspection of the negative revealed some
kind of contamination. ICE doesn't remove defects such as these as I
discovered.

Don

At 01:03 AM 26/06/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>The spots are most likely very small dust particles or other contamination
>in the processing water/ wash. The Nikon makes this muck show up as the
>white spots
>you mention.
>
>The film strip holder does often cause a curved edge - why? I don't no?
>
>As for getting good B+W scans then all I know is that my LS30 is far worse
>at scanning silver film than my old LS1000 IMHO. Of course I don't use ICE
>with silver film but the LS1000 did not have ICE, maybe because the light
>was a little softer? I have smooth 100ASA scans to A4 from the LS1000, the
>LS30 is as grainy as anything.
>
>Regards
>
>Philip
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>
>To: <philip.elkin@virgin.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:04 PM
>Subject: [filmscanners] Black and white scans on LS4000 ED and other issues
>
>
>I tried scanning some Delta 100 black and white negs on a Nikon LS4000 ED
>and the quality was awful, using either Nikon Scan 3.1.3 or Vuescan.  I
>tried scanning as monochrome, as colour and as colour positive and inverting
>in Photoshop. In all cases the preview image looked fine but the actual scan
>showed tiny white spots all over the images.
>
>I can't seems to get a good black and white scan at all. Can anyone tell me
>how to get good black and white scans?
>
>When scanning colour slides (Provia 100F and Kodak EBX 100) the scans have
>too much red in them.  Is this a facet of this scanner?
>
>When scanning a strip of slides (or negs) in the strip film adapter, the
>left edge of the preview image and scanned image is not straight, it bows in
>at the centre and into the image area.  Has anyone else seen this?  It is
>annoying as I had to crop a part of the image when I didn't actually want
>to.
>
>Also, the preview in Nikon scan looks very clear whereas the actual
>completed scan image in the Nikon Scan window looks muddy and grainy, and
>you can see the white spots, that I mentioned above, on the image.
>
>Any help, answers or opinions on these would be welcome.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Simon
>
>
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