Well, that's something new to me! I've never heard of pepper grain. I'm
glad I don't have many like that so I'm not worrying about it right now,
but I may try the digital camera scan route on those.
Thanks, Ken.
Tina
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That looks like "pepper grain". It was more common with Provia than
> Velvia, but would occur in both. From what I've been able to
> determine, it's caused by surface refraction in the surface of the
> film. Fujifilm essentially "frosted" the surface of Velvia and Provia
> to help the highlights. With a diffuse light source, there are no
> artifacts. With a pinpoint or columnated light source, the light would
> refract away from the direction of the scanner's sensor resulting in
> black dots.
>
> AG Schnozz
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > PESO:
> >
> > I'm still scanning slides of Italy. Most of the film has been Provia
> which
> > seems to scan fine, but I've run into a series where I used Velvia. That
> > shows lots of speckles in the film. I used Vuescan's infrared noise
> > removal when I scanned it and I've tried both Neat Image and Define in
> > Photoshop. Nothing touches these speckles. Here is an example:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/image/166696968
> >
> > Enlarged detail from the top left corner:
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/166696969
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to get rid of speckles?
> >
> > Tina
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