nathanael_galler Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Just a question for the profs: Are you scanning with ICE on or off? At first it seems to me that it makes the picture "cheaper", so I made all in Photoshop. But now I see that this is a lot a lot of work... *sweat* What is the professional way (for optimal picture quality)? What are youre techniques to "fight" with the dust (from the beginning)? ;-) Nice Greetings Nathaniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_liao Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 cheaper??? what do you mean? digital ICE on my NIKON 8000 works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanael_galler Posted August 29, 2004 Author Share Posted August 29, 2004 Hi, I work with Minolta 5400 + Silverfast and there is just one ICE-Option (unfortunately). 'Cheap' means more into the direction of an ordinary lab-print - less clarity, excellence, brillance. Greetings Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfink_photography Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 Hi Nathanael, I also use the Minolta 5400. You might want to try Vuescan instead of Silverfast, because with Vuescan you can set three different levels of ICE. I always scan with ICE at the lowest level, and find that it does a wonderful job of dust/scratch removal without introducing noticeable softening or artifacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcos_rodriguez Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 David, what version of VueScan are you using. Yesterday I ordered my 5400, and would certainly like to use VueScan instead of Minolta's propietary sotfware; however I've read all over the web that VueScan is not yet working very well with 5400 and ICE. Thanks. Marcos Rodriguez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidfink_photography Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Hi Marcos, Whatever you've read concerning the 5400 and Vuescan must be very dated. Vuescan has worked well with the 5400 (including ICE) since at least last November. I'm not sure what the absolute most current version of Vuescan is....I think I'm using version 8.10 (or something close to that). Of course, with the Pro license you get unlimited free updates, and I'm often an update or two behind! Best wishes, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_miller3 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Using ICE on Normal mode should cause virtually no loss of sharpness. Using Fine mode will soften your image some but probably not noticable at normal print sizes. My preference is to leave ICE on in Normal mode. I would only use Fine mode for a really bad slide but I have encountered that situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanael_galler Posted August 30, 2004 Author Share Posted August 30, 2004 Thanks! Are there more experiences? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_pearson1 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I scan professionally and always recommend ICE to my customers. ICE is a wonderful technology that works extremely good. If you have it I would use it! Of course you should still clean the film as much as possible before the scan, ICE usually takes care of the rest. Take a look at my <a href="http://www.pearsonimaging.com/gallery.html" target="_blank">customer galleries</a> to see for yourself, all the images there are ICE scans and they have not been sharpened. <br> <br> Carl Pearson<br> <a href="http://www.pearsonimaging.com" target="_blank">www.pearsonimaging.com</a></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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