Are you using the latest Minolta software? This can be
downloaded from Minolta's web site at:
This software greatly improves the ability to control
colour as it is possible to set separate exposures for
each colour channel. It also produces somewhat lower
grain on black and white neg film - it still remains
grainy though.
Having said all that you are unusual amongst Multi Pro
users in having difficulty with colours scanning
transparancy material.
--- Joe Tait <jtait@texas.net> wrote: > I am pretty
new to film scanning and at our work we
> recently got a
> Minolta DiMAGE Multi Pro. I
> am questioning whether I have a bad unit or if I
> don't know what the
> hell I am
> doing. I haven't had enough time to explore all the
> various settings,
> but here
> is what I've done so far...
>
> I have been scanning both color slides (velvia &
> provia) and B&W (HP5+
> & PanF+,
> TMAX400 35mm), 95% MF and all at native resolution,
> 16bit (both linear and
> non-linear), 8pass & 4pass. I am using OSX,
> firewire, and using both
> the Minolta
> and Vuescan. My monitor is calibrated meticulously
> under MonacoPROOF.
>
> I seem to be getting a red cast quite often
> irrespective of the
> film-combo/software. Known neutrals in the originals
> have far too much
> red in
> them. When I did a 16bit RAW scan in Vuescan of a
> Kodachrome 35mm IT8
> target,
> the red cast was horrible. Is this a defect? I have
> done adjustment
> curves on
> some of the scans and those scans definitely turn
> out better
> color-wise, but I
> don't know if those adjustments are undermining my
> ability to judge if
> I have a
> bad unit.
>
> BTW, I am looking at these in PS7 and so far have
> chosen to "not color
> manage"
> when opening the files, and there was no tag on the
> files when Vuescan or
> Minolta writes the files.
>
> Although I don't have anything to compare it too,
> there seems to be a fair
> amount of noise in _ALL_ channels, blue has the same
> as all others,
> green is
> definitely not sharper than other channels in any of
> the scans I've
> made. I have
> tried both auto & manual focus. A MF velvia slide
> that I have is
> georgeous under
> the loupe, but pretty grainy at "actual pixels" in
> PS. B&W has been
> _really_
> grainy and a MF PanF+ neg @ ISO64 is about as
> grainless as it gets! (I
> scanned
> B&W as color slide and B&W with similiar results).
>
> What do ya'll think? I really need to know so that
> we can send back
> the unit or
> it''s my ass!
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Joe
>
>
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