It's a great scanner, one of the best according to Ed Hamrick (author of VueScan, which is what I use to drive it). I have not found that the digital ICE reduces sharpness by much if anything. Of course, it's always best if you can avoid using it.
These two photos were captured with it from Kodak Advantix B&W negatives (APS format) and print to very nice A3 size: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/16a.htm http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/19.htm They look grainier here on-line than the prints do. Detailing is pretty amazing for small format film. Godfrey On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Derby Chang wrote: >> ... Nikon Coolscan IV ED ... > Me too, that's the one I have. I love it to bits. > > Jack says digital ICE makes the shots soft. I don't think I can blame > ASF or Nikon for that (this frame was from before learnt how to > breathe > out when taking a tele shot :). I might do a more careful > examination of > how much softening ICE introduces, but surely somewhere on the > interweb > thingy, someone has already done that. Meanwhile, I'm going to fire up > the LX and do some low light film stuff once again (Fuji Press, you > will > always have a place in my heart). Hope the mirror doesn't stick. > > Are you glad we are living at a time of so much possibility? I am. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
