Jack,
Thanks for the input. It's great to have folks from industry
participating again in this forum.
Jim Sims
Jack Phipps wrote:
>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:
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>>>>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
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>>>than a couple
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>>>>blasts from your Dust Off before you scan).
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>>>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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