I scan by LS-40. Since NI evaluation and purchase I found one a little bit more effective for grain smoothing then the GEM. Slightly smoother performance and a touch less impact on sharpness. However, if detail sharpness is critical, it may still have certain impact on one. I figured for my uses NI is most appropriate for portraiture to smooth out less then perfect skin appearance and smoothign the grain in the background (especially when it is a single toned area such as sky). Certainly, there is a small impact to sharpness if you would examine very closely, but very bearable for portraiture and easily compensated by a touch of USM. It takes time or processing and 100% of CPU resources, not the speed king (having said that I have yet upgraded to a newest version), but when needed producec stunning results (especially for women's eyes :-) ).
Regards, Alex --- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since there is now a Mac version of the Neat Image plugin, I have > been > looking at their product info page > > <http://www.neatimage.com/mac/index.html> > > They don't provide a noise profile for the Nikon film scanners. I > would be > interested in reading comments from any Wintel users who have tried > Neat > Image with an LS-4000 or other Nikon scanners. Are the results > better than > what can be achieved with the noise/grain reduction tools in VueScan > and > Photoshop CS? > > -- > Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message > title or body > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body