[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Minolta Elite II

["" <al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk>]

Ed Hamrick wrote:

> Minolta mailed me a loaner Scan Elite II on Friday.  I expect to
> get this working by next Friday.

Ed,

It would be interesting to know if the loaner suffers from the banding in
the red channel shadow areas using the Minolta software.  If you do get
a moment, could you do a scan of an underexposed slide and have a
look at the red channel.  The red channel banding is normally quite
clear even without pushing up the gamma.

If the loaner gets a clean bill of health, I wonder if Minolta have "tuned"
units which go out to reviewers and developers?  After all, all the
reviews of the Elite II I have seen so far have been positive....

Incidentally, you might want to know that the keystroke Ctrl-Shift-i in
the Minolta software forces the unit to recalibrate.  Might be useful
when you look into the calibration within Vuescan.



Al Bond

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