[filmscanners] Diffusers on MultiPro

["Bo Wrangborg" <bo@visicon.se>]

 Hallo Arthur,

 Sweden calling and Bo Wrangborg.

 I have been folloing you here and there regarding the light in Scan Dual II
and III
perhaps also in other Minolta scanners with the grainaliasing, bad rendered
gradiendts, and "grittiness".

 I can tell you that we are just going to produce a Semi-diffuser for the
MultiPro - that *allows* dICE to be used.
We had it out for beta tests and the results are - yes - very good.
As a bi effect with "cleaning up" the scan - we also get better contrast and
by that better definition.(sharper scans....)
Softer gradiation rendering and better colour. As it should from the very
beginning!

To much to be true?? ....not for us working with it, the scanner had simply
to hard light, and no diffuser.
We simply place these new diffuser "5LE" on distance to the film plane on
the filmholders.

 Perhaps you can test these diffusers on some other Minolta Scanners.
My friend Erik in the Netherlands will get the material later next week.
You can E-Mail me private for his (Erik's)  E-Mail and you can buy some
testmaterial from Erik, if he has nothing againt it. I have a feeling he
wants
to construct those diffusers.

 So in the end - it was the to less diffused light in that scanner that gave
 us these problems from the beginning.
 Now - I have the scanner I bought, and will not change it for any scanner
in
 it's price class.
 If the result are the same as we get, I'll promise that those owners will
be
 happy!


 Fiat Lux!

 Bo

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>
> To: <bo@visicon.se>
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 2:35 AM
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning old slides
>
>
> > You may want to rent/borrow a unit with DICE or IR cleaning and use
> > Vuescan, which I believe has adjusted the algorithm to allow IR cleaning
> > to be used with Kodachrome in certain situation.
> >
> > Otherwise, I agree with Rob's comments about dual scanning, before and
> > after, since the molds do often eat emulsion (which is why they grow on
> > it) they digest the gelatin layers which are protein and sugars.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > Rob Geraghty wrote:
> >
> > > "Preston Earle" <PEarle@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I'm beginning to scan some old Kodachrome slides my father took 50-60
> > >>years ago. They have a lot of dirt, dust, mildew, etc on both sides of
> > >>the film. I'm planning to take them out of the original mounts and
clean
> > >>with PEC-12 and cotton pads on both sides, being particularly careful
on
> > >>the emulsion side. I'm planning to remount them in new plastic mounts
> > >>and scan them on my trusty ScanDual II with Vuescan. Any thoughts and
> > >>advice as to what I should be doing differently, or what I might do to
> > >>clean the slides better and/or more safely?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Presumably the old slides are in paper mounts, so remounting them will
> be a
> > > difficult thing to do.  I'm impressed!  My only suggestion here is
maybe
> to
> > > think about cleaning the non-emulsion side with PEC12, dusting them,
and
> > > making two scans - one before and one after cleaning the emulsion side
> with
> > > PEC12.  The mould will have eaten the emulsion - but I am wondering if
> it
> > > also softens the emulsion nearby.  I have found that removing the
mould
> can
> > > remove a significant amount of the image.  I was just thinking that if
> you
> > > scan both ways it at least gives you a choice of which image to work
> with.
> > > Once you clean off the mould damaged parts of the image, they're gone.
> I
> > > recently scanned some old slides (Kodachrome and Ektachrome) of my
> father's,
> > > and while I couldn't use the IR channel on the Kodachrome, Vuescan's
> colour
> > > restoration feature was AMAZING.  Anyway, take raw scans and you can
> always
> > > recrop later.
> > >
> > > It has been suggested to me in the past that particularly mouldy
slides
> can
> > > benefit from soaking in a small amount of PEC12 before trying to
remove
> > > anything - to loosen the mould first.
> > >
> > > Others have been putting slides in anti-newton glass to ensure their
> > > flatness before scanning.  I don't know how much that applies to
Minolta
> > > scanners as opposed to Nikon ones.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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