Coolscan 9000 scanning in white lines...

Craig · Nov 9, 2017

I developed a roll of 120 T Max 400 today and started scanning it. First strip of negatives worked as usual and I ejected the film holder and put in the next strip. The previews are all striated and have random colours ( although it's set to greyscale and neg (mono) in the scan setting). The scan below is what I'm getting from the scanner.
Any ideas what happened? It's a massive loss of contrast and density compared to normal. The odd thing ( to me) is I didn't change any settings from one negative strip to another.

Scanner is a Nikon Coolscan 9000 using the Nikon Scan 4.0 software. Any ideas what might have happened?

chriscrawfordphoto · Nov 10, 2017

Turn off Digital ICE. It is not compatible with traditional BW film, and the results you got are what the scanner gives with Digital ICE on with BW film.

Digital ICE does work for C-41 process BW films, as well as C-41 color films and E-6 films. Just not for traditional BW film.

Craig · Nov 10, 2017

That worked! Thank you! I never knew that ICE didn't work with conventional B&W film until now.

chriscrawfordphoto · Nov 10, 2017

Craig said:
That worked! Thank you! I never knew that ICE didn't work with conventional B&W film until now.

Cool. Also, if you ever scan any Kodachrome, it is also said to be incompatible with Digital ICE. I have not tried it, so I don't know what the effect looks like. If you do Kodachrome and get wacky results with ICE, that's why.

I have tried BW film with ICE and got the same result you got.

shutterfinger · Nov 10, 2017

Digital ICE uses an infrared scan to detect dust and scratches. C41 and E6 films are dye based and do nor reflect the infrared, traditional B&W films as wells as Kodachrome are silver based films. The silver content reflects/scatters the infrared. Kodachrome processing added the color dyes to the silver based image once the base image had been formed.

Les Sarile · Nov 10, 2017

chriscrawfordphoto said:
Cool. Also, if you ever scan any Kodachrome, it is also said to be incompatible with Digital ICE. I have not tried it, so I don't know what the effect looks like. If you do Kodachrome and get wacky results with ICE, that's why.

I don't know if the OP will scan Kodachrome but Coolscan 9000+Nikonscan ICE works perfectly with Kodachrome as you can see below. Coolscan 5000+Nikonscan ICE shows some artifacting. Epson V500 ICE has issues with Kodachrome. Canon FS4000 FARE has the worst results I've ever seen.

Full res version -> http://www.fototime.com/056E802FBAE131D/orig.jpg

jlb2 · Nov 10, 2017

Les Sarile said:
I don't know if the OP will scan Kodachrome but Coolscan 9000+Nikonscan ICE works perfectly with Kodachrome

This is because the Coolscan 9000 has a specific version of ICE that Nikon claimed to be "more compatible with Kodachrome film". No other scanner has this advanced ICE. With a different scanner, you can always scan Kodachrome and B&W with the ICE turned off, and use software correction to remove the dust.

Les Sarile · Nov 10, 2017

jlb2 said:
With a different scanner, you can always scan Kodachrome and B&W with the ICE turned off, and use software correction to remove the dust.

The Coolscans 9000+Nikonscan ICE is magical particularly when it comes to very distressed film. As good as I am in post work, I cannot accomplish what it can do in less than a minute of scanning.

Full res version -> http://www.fototime.com/496ADC2265357CA/orig.jpg

Coolscan 9000 scanning in white lines...

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