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Hi friends, maybe
you remember my Dual II banding problem some weeks ago. Yes it was replaced by a
new unit and in the beginning it worked nearly OK. However after 50-60
hours the banding occured even more intensively than with the first unit.
Nobody locally knew what was the reason, Minolta abroad didn't respond to my
"cry" and made no effort to help me find the answer so I get rid of
it.
For those who
hesitate buying this model my 2c:
Both mine both Dual
II had serious problems with capturing/analyzing the previewed picture. It could
have been adjusted nearly perfectly tweaking with Minolta
software (btw pretty good!) but first prescans and settings offered by the
software were rather frequently unusable. Scanners saw something that
was not on the film (small peaks on histogram in brightest highlights) and
software was not capable of handling this automatically in preview mode. I
almost always had to override it manually. It means that results might be
color-vivid and very sharp (sharper than Elite probably due to manual focus
feature) but asking for a hard job to get it close to the reality
captured on negative film. Even two different previews of the same picture
within 1 minute gave me two different results - small but apparent... All of it
resulted in very slow workflow and rather unconstistent results through the
film. Comparing HPS20, Elite, Dual II and Coolscan 4 (with each of them except
Nikon I worked more than 6 months) in terms of consistency this is definitely
worst model.
The banding is/was
another problem - I don't know if general but mine for sure. Sometimes it can be
seen sometimes not - depends on the type of the scene and temperature of
the scanner.
If you already have
this model you can perform a small test on banding - switch the scanner
on, insert a blank frame (200 ASA or more) and make a preview ASAP.
Probably it won't be black as it should be but not serious banding should
be apparent. Let the scanner switched on for 10 - 15 mins and repeat the preview
again. If you see banding now it is probable that you will see it sooner or
later even on more ordinary scenes than an empty frame (typically on monochrome
areas such as sky, wall etc.) . Performing this "blank-frame"
test 5-6 times in one minute intervals shows how much
dependent on scanner temperature is the colour
result.
Don't put me wrong -
I cannot make judge on Dual II generally. I talk about my two
samples used on two different computers.
Vlad
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