[filmscanners] Re: Oh no! Not another "which one should I buy" question

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

I get some very strange effects on old Kodachrome 25 - 1960/70 vintages.
Shadow detail on faces can go very peculiar. Have given up using ICE on
Kodachrome, which has the advantage that the images are crisper on my 4000.

Bob Frost.

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From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>

I have an old LS-2000, which I believe is basically the same technology,
albeit lower resolution. The problems that it has with Kodachrome are:

1) The LEDs have narrow spectra, and don't see Kodachrome in the same way
that they see E6 slides, and they come out blue and rather dark. This can be
corrected for pretty well with a Kodachrome-specific profile.

2) The digital ICE dust and scratch remover doesn't work as well on
Kodachrome as on other films. Indeed, I've heard that on some old
formulations, it doesn't work at all. On the slides I have, post 1980, it
seems to work okay, softening the image just a tad, but properly removing
the scratches.

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