Who me?
Yes, it is well worth trying Kodachrome with the dust removal features of
Nikon Scan, because I have found them to make a great difference, even
though at the cost of some colour shift in reds. This was using Nikon Scan
3.1 on a 4000-ED (which is identical to a V-ED except for the formers wider
range of film adapters).
Judge for yourselves:
http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/P0010.jpg
http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/P0021.jpg
These are unretouched straight scans from 50 year old Kodachrome
transparencies - I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which is
the before and which is the after. And whether either is preferable to the
other!
Piers
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 August 2010 00:03
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] VueScan specs
Sounds like a neat trick. Let us know how it works out. Still hoping to
hear from Piers on his experience with Nikon scanner and Kodachrome
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> With VueScan, turning IR cleaning on and off and to Light, Med and
> Heavy is a separate setting, not tied to the film being scanned.
>
> I have some modest experience with Kodachrome scanning and IR
> cleaning.
>
> The basic problem is that, like the silver in B&W negs, the dyes in
> Kodachrome block IR, so the software often can't distinguish the
> difference between dust and image.
>
> I found that VueScan IR cleaning worked pretty well in areas with
> little dye, i.e. light areas, like sky. Fortunately, those are also
> the areas most in need of spotting. The black dust specks of scanned
> slides tend to disappear in darker and busier areas. In dark areas, IR
> cleaning did produce some noticeable artifacts, although fewer than I
> expected.
>
> Next time I do some Kodachrome, I'm going to scan to 64 bit RGBI "RAW"
> without applying any other adjustments, including no IR cleaning, just
> as I usually do. Then I'll "scan"twice from the RAW file for two
> output files, one with and one without IR cleaning, drop one atop the
> other in PS as layers, paint a layer mask to get the best of both,
> then merge.
>
> No Spotting Moose
>
> On 8/5/2010 1:21 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> IR cleaning is turned off under which product and what conditions?
>>
>> I would hope that it's possible to get the IR cleaning on with the
>> Nikon since Piers has shown that his Nikon scanner (model?) was able
>> to do a fair job of cleanup on Kodachrome with IR enabled. I know IR
>> is not supposed to work on Kodachrome but Piers showed that it does
>> to some extent... at least on his scanner model.
>>
>> Ken Norton wrote:
>>> The IR cleaning is turned off. That's it.
>>>
>>> AG
>
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