Digital BW, The Print

I have glass carrier FH-869G.  It is one big window that allows me to put
the negatives where ever I want.  So, I've marked the 6x6 dividing
line/frame spacing for the first 2 frames, and I put my 645 2-frame strip so
that the frame space coincides with the mark.  I then tell the scanner I
have 6x6 in it.

It does allow full frame views.

With silver film, no masks are needed.  For color film, to avoid rings on
the bottom (non-anti-newton-ring glass) there are loose masks that hold the
film off the glass.  (The top glass is anti-newton-ring.)

Paul
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-----Original Message-----
From: plindman@... [mailto:plindman@...]
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:47 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Renamed: MF Film Scanners


Paul,

Which MF glass carrier do you have for the
8000\ufffdthe one for strip film or the one for single
frame? Does it allow a greater scan area--can you
get the frame edges on both sides--than the
glassless strip carrier?
Thanks
Peter Lindman
> > > Just read a review of the Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO
> >>in Pop. Photo.
> > > (June issue) and they said a 6x7 scan at 48-bit color
> >>(and I assume the
> > > full 4800 dpi resolution) took 2 hours, 14 minutes.
>
> >The only thing they say is the computer had 512 MB of RAM.
>
> >My Win 2000 PC has 384 MB RAM and I don't get times
> >anywhere near 2 hours on my Polaroid SprintScan 120....
>
> >They do say that using ICE, ROC, and GEM will increase time
> >"significantly."
>
> Note that the Minolta with medium format film has an optical resolution of
> 3200 x 4800 dpi.  (The Nikon 8000 does 4K x 4K dpi with MF film.)
>
> I have the Nikon 8000, and I agree that GEM slows it down very
considerably,
> but not to 2 hours.  I have 512 MB RAM on a Win 98, and I notice the hard
> disk is being accessed continuously with these big, slow GEM scans.  I
have
> not been able to tell how much RAM would handle a MF scan with the special
> programs running, but I'd guess 1 GB would not be overkill.  (Of course my
> W98 machine is limited to 512, so I just take a break while it's doing its
> scanning.)
>
> I have found that, contrary to some reviewers' comments, GEM does work
fine
> with normal B&W, silver-based film.  I don't bother with ICE.
>
> I also found the glass carrier to be necessary.
>
> When I scan a B&W negative, I call it a monochrome positive, which gives
> ample latitude to use the histogram in the preview for setting white and
> black points.  (The monochrome negative setting will clip one of the
ends.)
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
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