[APML] Digital ICE

[Colin Clark <colin.mailinglists@sympatico.ca>]

Hi again,

I have been playing around with the Digital ICE feature of the Epson  
4870 on some daylight shots and have been pretty impressed with its  
ability to non-intrusively remove the inevitable dust that comes  
along with scans on a flatbed. I'm not sure if it was just me, but  
the only downside appears to be a very slight loss of sharpness.

Given that, I'm wondering if any other 4870 users apply Digital ICE  
to their astrophotographs? It certainly would save some of the work  
removing the dust by hand with the clone tool in Photoshop, but I  
wonder how major the loss of sharpness is on stars and astronomical  
objects?

Maybe the answer is as simple as being more careful with my  
transparencies and cleaning the bed of the scanner before each scan,  
but it still seems a bit dust prone. What do you think?

Any other suggestions for getting the best astronomical scans from  
the 4870?

Thanks,

Coiln
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