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Re: filmscanners: ICE and B&W?
> I seem to get odd effects when scanning B&W negs using ICE on my Nikon 4000 -
>like posterization . I vaguely remember someone once telling me this happened
>- can
> someone tell me why and if theirs a way around it other than just not
>using ICE on B&W negs?
> Thanks ,
> Steve
Digital ICE cannot work on silver B&W images (as opposed to B&W images
made on color based films like the XP Ilford series) simply because
silver in the film emulsion is opaque to IR. IR therefore cannot
distinguish between a scratch, dust or film emulsion.
Art
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