[filmscanners] Re: Colour fringing

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

Sorry about the confusion, I added that note about the Minolta after I
wrote the original message, so things got a bit befuddled.

The last paragraph refers to the HP S-20, not the Minolta Dual II.  The
Dual II is a "basic" slide and neg scanner, no reflective, and the
optical path seems to be that of most film scanners.  The problems I
referred to with the Minolta I have documented before, some have "lazy
sensors" which create a line across the scan, the images tend to have
aliasing problems making the image grittier than necessary, especially
with neg films, and also dust, dirt and scratches are more obvious, and
lastly sometimes the calibration process seems to go haywire and
develops a wide pink streak down negs.

Art

Op's wrote:

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> Arthur Entlich wrote:
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>>Finally, HP offered me the "new" S-20, although the banding was gone, it
>>had a number of other problems, and eventually it too went back to HP,
>>and I ended up with A Minolta Dual II, a much better scanner, but still
>>not without defects and problems.
>>
>>The problem is that the optics are just not good enough in that scanner.
>>  It has a very complex optical path due to the "feature" of allowing it
>>to scan both transmissive and reflective things (reflective at 300 dpi,
>>which my today's standards is a bit of a joke).  There are so many
>>moving objects in the scanner light/optical path (mirrors, etc) that I'm
>>amazed it works at all.
>>
>
> Art
>
> Do you mean that the Minolta has optical problems or was the above still  
>referring to the
> HP???
>
> Rob
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>


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