When I tested the Elite II I tried it on my PC (PII 350 with 896 Mb of RAM
running
Windows 98) and on a borrowed laptop (PIII 600 with 128Mb RAM running Windows
2000) and
the results using the Minolta software (version 1.0.0 I think) scanned at the
full
resolution of 2820 dpi with ICE switched off were identical.
I wonder whether we are discussing the same sort of banding in the red channel.
I posted
a couple of examples, comparing the results with the earlier version of the
scanner:
(Crop of full frame for reference and full resolution extract from each scanner
- 470KB)
(Separate channels of full resolution extract from each scanner - 307KB)
If this is the sort of banding you are seeing in Vuescan, then I think you may
be right
that Minolta have partly fixed the problem in the software. What version of
the Minolta
software are you using?
Al Bond
> This link has some comments with reference to " Vuescan & Minolta h/w &
>Bands...."
> The writer says its due to speed & virtual memory.
>
> (Look for last
>comment)
>
>
> Ramesh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk
> [mailto:al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:48 PM
> To: Nagaraj, Ramesh
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Bands while using Vuescan
>
>
> 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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