If I am in a hurry, I just shoot 'em with a digital camera.
Jack
On 7/22/05, Laurie Solomon <laurie@advancenet.net> wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> Without arguing the points you make, most of us who responded that Digital
> Ice does not work well with Kodachromes did qualify our statements and
> avoided making any absolute statements. However, the real question (even if
> Digital Ice works on many Kodachromes), given the original poster's message
> in which he said he wanted to batch process around a thousand or so
> Kodachromes with little description as to the colors on those slides or the
> evenness of quality of those slides, is will your workflow as described be
> an efficient route to go for large numbers of slides as opposed to a few at
> a time. I would think that (a) scanning 1000 slides with Digital Ice would
> take quite a bit of time in itself and (b) needing to scan some twice in
> addition to working on them in Photoshop could make the project a life-long
> endeavor.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> > [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Jack Phipps
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:58 PM
> > To: laurie@advancenet.net
> > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: 'Cheap' film scanner recommendations
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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