lifeandmylens wrote:
bjhurley wrote
lifeandmylens wrote
One of the ones I scanned in today. 503CW + P800 Great photo, as always! One advantage to using flatbed or slot-type scanners is that you can use Digital ICE (a combination of infrared hardware in the scanner and software on your computer) to remove dust spots and hairs quite effectively. There are tools for doing that in post in Photoshop, Capture One, etc., but Digital ICE is really effective. It can only be used on color films (and one B&W film, Ilford XP2 400). Thanks! Yes there's lots of dust. I think mostly from the cardbox boxes the negatives were shipped in. It's a lot more time intensive it seems to remove dust via camera scanning. I wonder how a scanner would compare.
I've been going through a lot of old negatives and slides lately. There can be a lot of dust on negatives stored in paper boxes, or in envelopes with prints. Even the old Kodak and Fuji slide boxes and paper slides end up producing a lot of dust. In going through several decades of old slides I've found that the cleanest ones are the 126 format slides from the 1970s that were mounted in plastic frames and stored in plastic clamshell boxes -- no cardboard, no dust.
With Kodachrome it's never been an option to use Digital Ice, and it's a very tedious process to use the 'heal' tool to remove dust in post. IME the easiest workflow involves dusting the negs before scanning. I find that compressed air works better than a brush.