Two points need to be made. One deals with one of your comments concerning
getting ICE. ICE only works with color negtives or chromgenic black & white
films. It does not work with silver halide films like true b&w films. The
second point, which is not one that addresses anything that you have said
but something that someone else said, deals with blowing compressed air into
the scanner. This does not remove the dust from inside the scanner; it only
moves the dust around inside the scanner. Moreover, the compressed air
blast can damage fragile innards of the scanner as well as create
condensation inside the scanner which will eventually produce moisture on
the electronics and water spots on optical mirrors and sensors.
-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Mike Kersenbrock
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:34 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Software dust removal
Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Further to my previous messages I have obtained a Scan Dual I on trial. I
> have tried it with the Vuescan trial version (and also the Minolta
drivers -
> so this must be a later model that works on XP).
As an alternative to blasting air at the negative before scanning as
mentioned to you already, there's a brush called 'staticmaster"
that has a polonium strip near the brush end that puts out alpha
particles (can't penetrate a sheet of paper, at best can do only
inches of air). It removes static "instantly" from the film at
which point the very soft brush works very effectively. Half life
of the polonium is very short so it's cartridge needs to be replaced
yearly (and buying old ones isn't useful). They've been around for
at least a half century or so, and I just got another one a couple
days ago for use with my new film scanner.
The other thing is the obvious nobody's going to mention. Borrow
a different scanner, one that features ICE in the software. Gets
rid of dust and scratches amazingly and automatically. :-)
Mike K.
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