[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and Scan Elite II

["Andreas Meffert-Rosenbaum" <arosen@gmx.de>]

Hello Al,

Sorry for my late reply but I was very busy last week.

>I don't think the current version of Vuescan has full support for the Elit=
>e
>II yet.  Although Ed did add preliminary support a couple of versions
>ago, the formal support list doesn't show it yet.  Ed currently has a
>loaner from Minolta but I think his efforts have been on getting the new
>features in Vuescan 7.5 working.

Ok, I´ll wait until Ed  mentioned the support of the Scan Elite II. Thank 
you for your hints.

>Similar here.  On my system (Win98SE, PIII 350 890Mb ram) the Elite
>II is very erratic under Vuescan.  Sometimes it freezes after focus but
>before managing to do a preview.  When it does scan, the preview and
>scans are incomplete with large gaps of zero luminance in the blue
>channel and no usable image data in either the blue or green channels.
>The red channel is the only one with any image data in it.  None of the
>channels seem calibrated at all.

So I´m sure it´s not the scanner. Thank you.

>Incidentally, have you scanned any underexposed slides on your Elite II
>using the Minolta software and brought the shadow detail up?  A couple
>of us have had problems in the shadow areas (ie "lazy" or uncalibrated
>CCD elements which cause single pixel tracks in the shadows and also
>regular banding across the entire shadows in the red channel).  I'm still
>debating whether to keep the Elite II so I'm curious how widespread this
>problem is.

I´ve scanned some underexposed color negatives. With them I dind´t have any 
problem, I can´t find absolutely no banding. Ok, the grain is a little bit 
visible, but it was a 200 ASA film. In the moment I test it wirth a slide 
(100 ASA) - a sunset maybe ok for testing. I see less grain than the color 
negatives and a very very thin horizontal line (one pixel) only in the ble 
channel across the whole image which is a little bit brighter than the 
rest, but its only visible at zoom scale more than 350. And the line 
doesn´t have the same brightness over the whole length. It´s not so clear 
than the example of the linked webpage some days ago (schmode or so - 
sorry, but I can´t remember exactly).
Now I tried it with 8bit. The line was "gone away". In every channel no 
banding was visible. I tried it again with 16 bit. On the second scan I saw 
a light banding in the red channel, the others are ok, and a second slide 
was also ok - in every channel. I think it comes at random and only when 
you scan with 16bit.

All scanns were done with full resolution and singlescan with the original 
Minolta twain plugin and Adobe Photoshop.

I hope I can help.

Andreas Meffert

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