[filmscanners] Re: Bands while using Vuescan

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

Ramesh wrote:

>  I have heard lot of people saying "Minolta Dimage Elite II" causes bands. I 
>too observed
>  the follwing.
>
> a) Causes clear red bands in DARK part of the slide scan.

I tried 2 Elites IIs in January/February and both units exhibited this.

>   * While using Vuescan. But ****NOT*** in Minolta software.

<snip>

> *Is it the problem with Vuescan or Minolta h/w. H/W seems to be ok, beacuse 
>bands
appear
> only with DICE. Without DICE there are no bands.


Odd.  I found it happened both with Vuescan AND the Minolta software with or 
without ICE
turned on so my conclusion was that it was the hardware!  The only way I found 
to the
stop the banding with the Minolta software was to switch GEM on.  Of course, 
this didn't
actually stop the banding but the smoothing effect of GEM masked it.  (If I 
slowly
increased the GEM value from the lowest value of 1, the visibility of the 
banding
decreased correspondingly.)

Was GEM definitely switched off when the you got band-free scans?



Al Bond

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