[filmscanners] Re: Checking and the new Minolta 5400filmscanner

["Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>]

On 5/8/03 11:35 pm, "David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@gol.com> wrote:

> 
> From: "Håkon T Sønderland" <hts@antares.no>
>>>>>>>>>> 
> Simon Lamb wrote:
>> Håkon
>> 
>> There is a hands on review at http://www.photo-i.co.uk
>> 
>> 
> Thank you. I found it hard to tell the quality of scans
> from the pictures there, but the reviewer sounded quite
> pleased with the unit.
> <<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> Really. From those images, it seemed that doubling the resolution provided
> no improvement whatsoever. But that appears to be quite wrong. Try this
> nicely done page by Bart van der Wolf:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvdwolf/main/foto/scan/se5400/se5400.htm
> 
> David J. Littleboy
> Tokyo, Japan
> 

A shame Bart didn't provide an insight into using the built in diffuser on
the scans of the child rather than showing us how poorly Neatimage gets rid
of grain and softens the image.

Guess we still need to wait for a definitive review.

Simon

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