Michael, Only having seen ICE in action and not owning a scanner that uses it, my comments must be taken with a grain of salt. When scanning with ICE on, the scan time is longer. It has to scan one more pass to get the surface defects. I am also told and have read that it softens the image slightly. I do recall John Francis stating that if the image was important, he scanned without ICE and cleaned it up himself.
My guess is that ICE is most valueable when scanning large quantities where you would not want to take the time to clean up each one. If your scans are more individual, it might not be that useful. One other area to look at, that you may not have thought of is batch scanning capability. The ability to tell the scanner to scan a number of images and then let it do it unattended can be important. That is one of the reasons I bought the Scan Dual II over the Scan Elite (has ICE). Many scanners are one frame at a time and you have to sit and nurse them. Bruce Dayton Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 11:13:15 AM, you wrote: MB> Bruce, MB> Thanks for the input. MB> Thats a vote in favor of the minolta. MB> I agree, I would prefer USB if possible but if everyone told me the scsi model MB> was superior I would go for it. I have read mixed reviews of the minolta. MB> I think the biggest complaint was the lack of ICE or similar "dust/scratch" removal technology. MB> Do you think it really needs this/Do you have problems with dust etc? MB> Anyone else recommend the Minolta, or have info on the canon models? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
