Dust removal with Epson Perfection 4180 Photo

[Olaf Willenbrock]

Hi,

I am going to buy a scanner to scan slides and paper photographs. Does
anyone has experience with the dust removal of Epson Perfection 4180?
How are the results? Is it a hardware or software feature? What is the
difference to the ICE technology of Epson 4870 or the FARE technology?

Best regards

Olaf

 

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The dust and scratch removal on the 4180 is software based (it is hardware
based on the 4870). Most people feel the software based removal systems are
not very useful (problems with softening) and that it is just better to
manually correct the defects by hand in Photoshop.

Doug

 

[Mark]

Hi,

I am going to buy a scanner to scan slides and paper photographs. Does
anyone has experience with the dust removal of Epson Perfection 4180? How
are the results? Is it a hardware or software feature? What is the
difference to the ICE technology of Epson 4870 or the FARE technology?

Best regards

Olaf

I've had the 4180 for a few months and have scanned a few hundred slides but
still feel like I'm on the steep portion of the learning curve. For
"automatic" dust removal, I find that the scanner does a better job than I
can get out of Photoshop Elements in terms of blurring of the details in
the image. I can get much better results than either, however, by using
Elements to manually remove the defects - just very time consuming.