[filmscanners] Re: Grain from negs with Multi Pro

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

You've raised the same question I have just posted (I just got to your
posting now).  Perhaps someone can answer that question.  I'm suspecting
there might be something to the use of "electronic sharpening" going on
with certain scanners, or indeed some firmware or software sharpening.

If it is within firmware, even using the same software won't remove the
variable.  As I mentioned in my posting, I am beginning to think one
can't judge a scan until proper use of unsharp masking is done to
determine is any pre-sharpening has been feed into the mix, which might
reduce the amount of unsharp masking that can be used before
objectionable artifacts occur.

Art

Tomek Zakrzewski wrote:

> Minolta Mulri Pro is said to give pronounced grain from neg scans.
> My question is whether the results are worse than with Nikon LS-8000ED or
> Polaroid SS120.
> If there is a difference, is it caused by hardware related problems or
> rather is it software which is responsible for bad effects with grain from
> negatives?
> If you used the same software, i.e. VueScan with Minolta and other scanners
> to make the inversion from negative to positive, would the difference be
> still visible? Did anyone make such a comparison?
> I simply can't undestand why should Minolta give bigger grain than Nikon if
> it has a softer light source.
>
> Regards
>
> Tomek Zakrzewski
>
>


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