[filmscanners] Re: FW: Software question re Nikon Coolscan 4000ED

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

dICE should work with E-6 and C-41 films.  It is not the answer for some
Kodachrome dyes, and true black and white film, as both tend to be
partially or fully opaque to IR light sources.

Art

Haydn wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have been watching with interest the mail that passes on this board
> for around 3 months now; as background info, I am an amateur
> photographer and have just purchased a Nikon Coolscan 4000ED with
> which I hope to digitise >20 years of accumulated photos from around
> the globe.
>
> Since I am a newcomer and a beginner to scanning, can anyone point me
> to where I can find information on the relative merits of the
> Nikonscan 3.1.2 software as against Vuescan or indeed any other
> scanning software for that matter. Thus far I have only dipped my toe
> gently into the water and after importing scanned images into
> Photoshop I do my tweaking there and am reasonably happy with the
> results
> obtained.
>
> I have already found the limitations of the ICE feature which
> sometimes works on an image and then again, more often than not, most
> definitely doesn't, but I am sure there are untold wonders on the road
> ahead and would like to get to them in the shortest and least painful
> manner.
>
> Sorry to go over old ground and I hope that my question
> doesn't upset anyone's applecart.
>
> Regards and thanks.
>
> Haydn
>
>


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