Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
I'm confused about this ICE thing. I got ICE with an Epson scanner, and it seemed to be software that ran AFTER the scanning process.
It does run afterwards, but you have to tell the scanner software you want it running before you start scanning. So, the scanner scans the slide with all 4 channels (see below), the software picks up the information and processes it, then it saves the image file.
An ICE scanner has a 4th channel - IR - and the information from that tells the software where there are scratches and dust. The software fills those in from the surrounding pixels, and makes a very good job of it. Unfortunately the residual silver in a lot of Kodachrome, and in B&W, messes up the information from the IR channel so you get dud results using ICE on them. Unfortunately the card mounts that old Kodachrome often has sheds dust like crazy.