(FWD) Re: Got the specs: Dimage Scan Dual

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

>From the Minolta list:

On  2 Jul 97 at 10:04, Jim Williams wrote:

> In case anybody besides me is interested in Minolta's forthcoming 35mm/APS
> film scanner...

<snip>
 
> One slight downside compared to the QuickScan is that the Dimage doesn't
> have a manual focus control; it's "focus-free." While I've never found that
> the focus setting on the QuickScan is especially critical, it IS useful
> sometimes when scanning high-speed b&w negatives -- the CCD pattern tends
> to make the images look grainier than they really are, and using the focus
> control to defocus the image a bit (as suggested in the instruction manual)
> is the easiest way to suppress this. If Dimage scans need to be
> "de-grained," it'll have to be done in software.

Mmm....if this applies to high speed ordinary b&w, then it probably 
is even more true with HIE....
Many moons ago someone mentioned that HIE was hard to scan....can't 
say that the density range is easy to tackle, but this grain/focus 
argument is new to me....any comments?

 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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