The consensus on the filmscanner list is the same ie.
that the Nikon LED light source accentuates grain more
than other types of light just as a condenser enlarger
will accentuate grain over a cold light or color head.
Warren
--- Bill [Sue] Pearce <bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On B&W grain. Scanning _seems_ to make it worse. I
> don't claim to understand
> this, but some people have the opinion that it is
> related to the light
> source in the scanner. My lab owning friend
> disagrees, he thinks it's in the
> software. I have just been doing some scanning with
> a Nikon 4000, from EPY
> and Scala. In both cases, the grain was alarming.
> The GEM helped quite a
> bit, but a 65 meg scan took around 8 minutes, most
> of that processing.
=====
Warren Xato
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