Digital BW, The Print

I haven't tested ICE - times here - it's a pain anyhow!
48 bits color!

Here 6x6 "Hassle-blade" neg out of it's borders!

The longest time for my multi pro is when multisampling my 6x6 16 
times and have continous autofucus 54 minutes coffybreak! 4800 dpi.
That is near 4000 real dpi as they have somthing called linjar 
interplating - and the carrige go on step forword and half a step 
bakwards. 

Doing a "4000" dpi scan at 4800 in soft NO multisampling about 6 
minutes - 3200 dpi almost 5 minutes (4 minutes 40 seconds)

A one pass 4800 TRUE dpi 24x36 a little over 3 minutes.

But who cares!
Look around on the net! 

I sold ne of my a cars to get that one! An instrument instead of a 
scanner - I was so amazed when the Region Head Hospital tested Nikon 
and Minolta - and guess - it was choosed by the hospital 
photografers - it was the minolta that was bought in "party and 
minute". I know the testers - and took part of there tests.

I decided to sell a one of my cars. And the result - i love it!
This is my last scanner - then it's all digital in some three Years!

I do this for hobby (Ok I'm 55++ years old and have been in 
photobusiness also) but the camera tought me to see! An never ending 
styry (ok - I might see for another ten Years to come! 

PC-gear:
750 Meg ASUS A7V333 - 333 mhz rammudules - raid - and here I prefere 
the Firewire - because it's a hot connection - You don't have to 
restart the computer as with SCSI - and you can calmly put it on in 
XP You hear a "clink" and you go to the soft start scanning.
Hot equippment soakes air and dust. So when You have scanned You 
cover the scanner and switch it of - and so on!

I would like to see life comparement NIKON - Multi Pro in a magasin 
made by real pros- but I dont care - I only have three 1290 printers -
but 6x6 allows me to make "cut outs" and still have very very sharp 
scans - and for 24x36 - 4800 dpi scanns are not shit!

There are lots of places on the net - but I have seen no comparing.

Let's say "it's good enought for me!

2 hours scantime for 6x7 must be with ICE and 16 times multisamling, 
continous autofocusing GEM and ROC - 48 bit etc etc.

Then I'm amazed - not longer!

Talked to Minolta Scandinavia - (Norway and Sweden) that not one 
Multi pro has been redelivered because of despair. 

Of cause the NIKON MF must be good as well - it costs more!
And it's a NIKON!!!!

/smile/

Remember there 4000 model - that has nonsharp corners - why by 
expensive Nikon - floating - xxx-lens glases - when the scanner gives 
weak corners.

However there are no ideal scanner - only drumscanners - but that's 
another league I think!

For hobby I really recomend the Multi PRO in favor of the more 
expensive Nikon MF scanner. /smile/

As I said - some missinformation must be going on out there!
Or is my scanner a turbo one - I don't think so!

By the way - my D-max is better than my friends Nikon MF scanner -
he borrows it now and then - as I don't use it so often.

I have other jobs to do as well!

For me it's either "Switch on" or "Switch off" - just now it's on - 
day and night!

As old I am I really like my wet darkroom as well - have a feeling 
that this quading is soon industry and can be bought and implemented 
on every inkjet or Xerox in some time.

By the way - "What is Fine ART" - we don't use that in Sweden - is it
"l'art pour l'art"? (French - like "Art for art itself"?)

I have fun doing quad - PIEZO - Pauls VM - but it is not silver - 
it's 
carbon (but corbon is in the same family as diamonds) - Who cares as 
long as it is this good!

Sorry for my Swinglish - Swedish-English that is!

Regards

"The old Hassle-Blade man"
Bo Wrangborg
Made in Sweden




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., plindman@a... wrote:
> Thanks Paul. I've been sitting on the fence about the 
> glass carrier. There aren't any stores locally that 
> stock either one so it was  good to get your feedback.
> Peter
> > 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
> > _____________________
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plindman@a... [mailto:plindman@a...]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:47 AM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Renamed: MF Film Scanners
> > 
> > 
> > Paul,
> > 
> > Which MF glass carrier do you have for the
> > 8000…the 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
> > >
> 
> >