Digital BW, The Print

It is possible that the focusing algorithms have been changed to slightly defocus the image and therefore reduce the grainy appearance, or are the scans as sharp as one would expect from the scanner and the software really is working better?

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bo Wrangborg 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 12:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] New software for Minolta scanners


  Hallo,

  Go http://www.minolta.com
  Then choose Europe on the map.

  Then:
  Choose Software (to the left)-->Choose Digital Photography (besides 
  the pics.)--> press German *or* U.K flag-->Choose Software (besides 
  the pics)--->Agree to license---> Choose the product!

  I hope I didn't miss anything here?

  Some users of Windows 2000 that changes from the old to the new one 
  have reported that some old "driver" is left and gets the same 
  results.
  If you encounter this I suggest that you do a global search for all 
  routines mensiond in the end of the manual and delete them before 
  installing the new software!
  Also follow the old rule not to have any program in the background 
  running when installing the new software. 

  Read the manual and you find the new things there. The quality of 
  scanns tells you the rest. They are indeed better than before.
  The "gritti noise" or grain aliasing is almost gone! Hi mark here!
  Colours are better etc and it's faaast!

  Fiat Lux! 
  Bo Wrangborg





  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mahesi Caplan-Faust" 
  <caplan@n...> wrote:
  > How do you tell the down load is successful. Everything looks the 
  same to
  > me!
  > 
  > Thanks
  >   -----Original Message-----
  >   From: Simon Lamb [mailto:simon@s...]
  >   Sent: 13 September 2002 17:36
  >   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
  >   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] New software for Minolta scanners
  > 
  > 
  >   Frank
  > 
  >   Where on the site is it located?
  > 
  >   Simon
  >     ----- Original Message -----
  >     From: culturalvisions
  >     To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
  >     Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:30 PM
  >     Subject: [Digital BW] New software for Minolta scanners
  > 
  > 
  >     The new version of Minolta scanning software has been
  >     available for free download on the
  > 
  >     http://www.minoltaeurope.com
  > 
  >     site for a week now, but I hadn't noticed it appearing on the 
  USA
  >     site.  This is a great, and much needed, improvement for the
  >     Minolta Multi Pro 4800dpi scanner.  It adds new manual
  >     exposure controls and seems to scan color and b+w negatives
  >     vastly better than the original version.  Histograms are no 
  longer
  >     clipped and grain aliasing seems to be history.
  > 
  >     It is designed for all Minolta scanners.  It looks like I can 
  stop
  >     using Vuescan, but I have not really put the software through a
  >     series of tests yet.
  > 
  >     Frank
  > 
  > 


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