Traditionally scanning has relied on anti-static brushes, special cloths or cannisters of compressed air. We use these, but they only go so far.
Enter a company called Applied Science Fiction and a hardware feature built into all our scanners, Digital ICE. This uses an infra red scanning channel to calculate where surface defects are on the film. When the scan is made this data is used to effectively remove traces of dust and scratches. The final quality of your scanned image is transformed, as ASF say ‘bust the dust while you scan’.
Due to the way Digital ICE works it has to be built into scanners. It virtually doubles scanning times but it transforms the quality of the final scan, and of course it saves you hours of tedious hand correction time. We think adding Digital ICE is worth the extra investment - if you want the best scans with as little dust and scratches as possble, go for Digital ICE.
But ...
Digital ICE doesn’t like the silver found in many black & white negatives, so its unlikely to work its magic on mononchrome. And despite Applied Science Fiction having been taken over by Kodak this feature doesn’t always work on Kodachrome slides.
However careful you are dust gets onto your slides and negatives, along with scratches from handling or from small flaws in your camera, the film cartridge or the film processing system. Even a tiny fleck or grit scratch, when magnified in an A4 size enlargement, will be intrusive and unsightly.
Of course you can correct these imperfections by hand. But it each one takes time, hours and hours ....
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