RobGeraghty
Member
It mostly depends on the density of the images. A lot of the photos I've taken have been in rainforest, so there tends to be a lot of dark areas. In normal daylight photos it probably works ok. I have heard that Vuescan's dust and scratch removal works better with kodachrome than Nikon's for some reason. I've been using Vuescan exclusively on my LS30 because with Nikonscan the imags get jagged edges.
Most of my slides are Fuji ektachrome. I only have a few rolls of Kodachrome so it's not an issue for me. The scanner's performance with silver based B&W is disappointing - the LED light source isn't strong enough to penetrate such films well - shadow detail gets lost very quickly. The same problem is evident with Fujichrome 100F due to the density of the blacks. In the case of the 100F I still love the film because the grain is so unbelievably fine.
Another point in vuescan's favour - the colour restoration feature is amazing. I scanned a couple of Ektachrome slides about 35 years old, and the Vuescan feature did an incredible job of restorin them. My parents were overjoyed to get prints from the slides. The feature has worked well with old negs I've scanned also.
Rob
PS With vuescan you can save the IR channel separately. That's how I was able to see the effect of different film stock on the IR.
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