[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Minolta Elite II

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic@ampsc.com>]

I am beginning to suspect this might be the case with Minolta's review
models.  I based my purchase of a Minolta Dimage Dual II on glowing
review reports, but have discovered a number of apparent hardware
defects, in two units now.

I'm going to see if the keystroke sequence you mention helps at all in
fixing some intermittent color balance problems that occur on part of
the scan (with negs).

Art

al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

 > 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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