RE: filmscanners:minolta and med format

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

True and a good point that I did not mention, focusing more on the idea of
scanning medium format at maximum optical resolutionjs without focusing on
any particular model.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Erik Kaffehr
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:31 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format


Hi!

Just want to add that Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro also has a real 3200 PPI
resolution for 120 (MF) film, which is almost a three times improvement over
older models.

Regards

Erik Kaffehr

lördagen den 15 december 2001 16.54 skrev du:
> First it is not the "Dimage Scan II" that scans medium format but the
> Dimage Scan Multi, the Dimage Scan Multi II, and the Dimage Scan Multi Pro
> which scan medium format films.  Minolta's model naming system can get
very
> confusing with like sounding and looking names.  The Dimage Scan II, I
> believe, is one of their 35mm film scanner models.
>
> Second, on the scanners that you are referring too, the Minolta scanner
> software DOES NOT provide segment stitching features; you have to do this
> manually in a program like Photoshop or by means of some "automated
> stitching" third party software.
>
> Moreover, the ability to scan 1/3 sections of the film at the full optical
> 35mm resolution is not a hardware feature of the named Minolta medium
> format scanner but a function of a combination scanner software and
> hardware film holder. If you use the two with any of the three medium
> format models you can scan a medium format frame in sections at the
> scanners full 35mm optical resolution; it is not peculiar or unique to any
> of the medium format models of scanner offered by Minolta.  What is unique
> to the hardware of the newest medium format Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro
> model is that it has a hardware infrared channel which allows for a dICE
> feature which the two earlier Dimage Scan Multi models did not have.
>
> As for "Does/will this work as well as scanning the entire image?", one
has
> to answer tentatively yes but it is a time consuming pain in the butt to
> work in sections and then to stitch them together as opposed to doing a
> high optical scan of the entire frame.  Between each of the three
sectional
> scans, one has to take out the film holder and rearrange the film in it so
> as to relocate a new section in the proper orientation in the proper
> location within the universal film holder.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Andy D'Angelo
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 6:50 AM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format
>
>
> Greetings,
>   does anyone have any experience or advise re. using the Minolta
> medium format scanner(dimage Scan II) and their stiching software.
> ??I understand these med format scanners scan 35mm portions of the
> 120 and "stitch" the scans together,Does/will this work as well as
> scanning the entire image?
> Andy

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