![]() I have scanned Kodachrome successfully in the past, but there is a standard disclaimer that some versions of ICE don't work with Kodachome. With the Reflecta and Plustek you need to move the film holder forward, so you just have to be aware of it (but those scanners are faster anyway). I do this with my FS4000 and APS film - just load the cassette and come back 6 hours later with all 40 frames scanned. With a scanner with an automatic film loader you can set it running and then come back half an hour, and hour, four hours later (depending on the speed of the scanner and the number of frames). It does take quite a bit of scanner time but that doesn't matter as I'm not involved. ICE takes zero user time as you just have it set for each image. I suspect that the thread like defects are from being in the attic for 15-20 years I normally use a Rocket Blower - I avoided that with these as the purpose was to demonstrate what ICE does My K64 slides don't have only micro dust, there are emulsion pinholes and patches that look like lifted flaps of emulsion. What's the mode of failure there, does it fail to detect the specks? What I do know is that I gave away my flat bed scanner when I found that I couldn't get controllable color with the OEM software no matter how much time it squandered. Maybe that's slower than ICE, I don't know. For images that won't be printed large I'd need 1-2 minutes at 25% viewing scale. I clean up my Z7 "scans" at 100% viewing scale when a large final presentation is warranted, about 2-6 minutes of work. I've never seen those thread-like defects until now. However the cleaning I described as prep for my camera scanning gives me from 10-20X the total amount of those micro specks axcross the entire frame. If my frames had the look of the former image then for sure I would have bought a dedicated film scanner with ICE by now. I give my negs and slides about 10 seconds of attention with the extremely soft Kinetronics "StaticWisk" brush and 5 seconds of Rocket blower which might leave the result above about 3% of the time - a second pass clears it. I would classify that as inadequate prep. If I was to buy one then for sure I would insist on it. Speaking only for myself I'm not negative on the subject of ICE because I don't own a dedicated film scanner. Some of the discussions on scanners and camera scanning mention "Digital ICE" as an advantage of scanners over camera scanning (particularly for old photos). I find they happen more often on slides than negatives. Hah, that happens to be my scanner as well, and I get plenty of worms! Not always, funnily enough. Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. It scans with both visible light and infrared light in a single pass. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan employs its own infrared cleaning, which has never produced 'worms' with any of my slides, including Kodachromes. ![]() VueScan doesn't refer to ICE at all, although my scanner (Pacific Image PrimeFilm 3650u) carries the ICE logo. I've tried it with Vuescan and it's really, really terrible. Hmm i assume the high quality of ICE here is down to Silverfast. It's worth adding that ICE does not work with conventional black and white film (it does work with chromogenic films like XP2) and may or may not work with Kodachrome (it seems to depend upon the particular scanner/software). The downside is that the scan with ICE takes longer than without, however there is no extra effort involved, you just have to wait a little longer. It's obvious at this scale that it's removed the larger mark, but if you zoom into the sky you can see that it works at a much smaller level. The slide is pretty clean but I didn't do any extra cleaning before scanning. ![]() Scanned on a Reflecta ProScan 10T, Silverfast 9 (technically it's "MagicTouch" not "ICE" but it's the same idea) at 5000ppi. Shot on Ektachrome 400, Praktica SuperTL 1000, Regents Park, London. However some people might not have seen what this looks like in practice, so this is an example.įirstly a slide from the 1980s.
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