Actually, Digital ICE works quite well with most Kodachrome film.
There are certain images that are troublesome. Certain batches of film
with a lot of cyan are the most serious cuprites. For example I
scanned an image of a man wearing a dark navy colored cap. Of course
there was a high density of cyan in the cap. Unfortunately the cap had
yellow lettering on it. The yellow lettering was the only part of the
image that was affected when correcting the image using the infrared
defect map. It was also unfortunate that the image was covered with
many fine scratches and other very visible surface defects. The
fastest way to solve the problem was to scan the image twice and
"bring back" the lettering on the cap with a layer mask in an image
editor. The lettering on the cap was an important part of the image
otherwise I would have left it alone.
My workflow is to scan Kodachrome with Digital ICE on. If I notice
artifacts around high densities of cyan, rescan with Digital ICE off.
If there are a lot of defects, I combine the two (or I go down the
hall and use a Nikon 9000). If there is any fading or color imbalance,
then I apply Digital ROC.
The other choice is to purchase a new Nikon 9000 that does scan
Kodachrome quite effectively. However, I don't think that the Nikon
9000 meets the requirement of inexpensive. The Nikon 5000 and the
Nikon V also perform better with Kodachrome than the older models but
not as well at the 9000.
Jack Phipps
Kodak's Austin Development Center
Formerly, Applied Science Fiction
On 7/22/05, chris@ion-dreams.com <chris@ion-dreams.com> wrote:
> > >My only suggestion is that whatever you do, you should do it with
> > >Digital ICE enabled. You will want to use the scans as is and not
> > >screw around trying to remove dust from the images (other
> > than a couple
> > >blasts from your Dust Off before you scan).
> > >
> > >
> > Except that theoretically Digital ICE doesn't work with
> > Kodachrome (although some have reported it working ). Image
> > apparently not fully transparent in the IR channel.
>
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