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Re: Film Scanners

2004-10-18 by Andre

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Nunan, Mike"
<mike.nunan@c...> wrote:

> That's interesting, I found the 5400 to be unrelentingly hard
(contrast and grain to the max) when scanning retained-silver B&W
film, and the grain dissolver only seemed to make a slight
improvement. I can't fault the sharpness and for colour film, notably 

The Minolta 5400 scanning software is contrasty by design. It is meant
to impress first time users. Vuescan might be a better solution.

André

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