[filmscanners] Re: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners Digest forThu 16 Oct, 2003

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Hi Malcolm,

You are quite welcome, and I hope the Minolta III meets with your needs.
The one place you may find the Minolta a bit frustrating is in the
matter of dust visibility in the scans.  Make sure to clean the film
well before scanning (using a soft bristled brush, compressed air or an
ear syringe rubber bulb) Some people go with an antistatic brush, but be
aware they have some radio-isotopes in them and safety may be a factor.

If you still find the dust a problem, Polaroid has a dust removal
software available for free for download which is both a Photoshop
plug-in and stand alone, and another person has improved upon it still
with a free download called dustbuster.  Both of these products use an
algorithm to recognize dust in slides and negatives and automatically
remove it with little softening.

All the best, and good scanning.

Art

malcolm wrote:

> FAO Arthur Entlich
>
> Just to sday a big thank you for your advice.
>
> I had set my heart on either the Canon or Epson models but after reading
> your email started to re think the idea. (the process was, 1st reading 'no
> way', 2nd reading 'well he has a point' and 3rd reading 'it makes perfect
> sense'! LOL)
>
> It ended up with me within an hour or so of reading your advice, ordering
> the Minolta Dimage III. That way I can use the Epson for the postcards,
> which does a great job, and get much better 35 mm scans. On top of that the
> Minolta was £245 at Amazon, therefore saving money from the original budget.
>
> So a big thank you.
>
> Malcolm
>
>
> FAO Paul D. DeRocco
>
> Many thanks for that. I have now ended up getting a film scanner instead of
> the flatbed models I was looking at,  but will also look into your idea as
> that will save lots of time should there be a point when I need to do a
> large number. Thank you
>
> Malcolm
>


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