Digital BW, The Print

Just wanted to clarify that the scanning time I mentioned of 14 minutes
for a color negative with ICE and Grain Dissolver enabled is for color
negatives only. Color slides take about 5-6 minutes at 5400dpi with ICE
and Grain Dissolver enabled.

Unfortunately this means it will also take 14 minutes if you want to use
ICE with chromogenic films, since you have to scan them as color
negatives. Someone on Photo.net mentioned that this has also been a
problem with previous Minolta scanners and that Vuescan would scan the
same negatives in 1-2 minutes. When Ed adds support for the new Minolta
I'll try that and make a comparison.

I've also done experiments comparing 5400dpi vs 4000dpi scans, and I
haven't yet found a slide or negative that contained any additional
detail at 5400dpi. The grain structure is much prettier however, having
a much more detailed and natural look than the upsampled 4000dpi scans,
so I think it's worthwile purely as a better alternative to other
upsampling methods.


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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no