Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Severely OT: Buying a Flatbed Scanner
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Jan 13 22:10:39 2005
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At 11:49 PM -0600 1/13/05, Robert Meier wrote:
>Nathan,
>
>The way digital ICE works does not soften the image.   It uses, as I 
>understand it, infrared beams that rake the slide across its 
>surface, picking up dust that is on the surface, and then the 
>software, knowing what is dust and what is not,  replaces the white 
>spot caused by the dust with the surrounding color.
>
>Bob

I think you'll find that it does soften the image somewhat. Whether 
that amount bothers you or not is another matter. I've had 3 scanners 
now that have ICE, and they all do it. Third party tests confirm it.

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