Digital BW, The Print

Right now I'd steer clear of anything Polaroid... :-)

tim a


really - is Polaroid scanners a totally separate division of the corp.?
Anyone know?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mahesi Caplan-Faust [mailto:caplan@...]
> Sent: November 15, 2001 7:52 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Minolta Multi Pro V's Polaroid 120 user
> feedback!
>
>
> I have just stalled my order on the Minolta scanner and am considering the
> Polariod 120 which comes bundeled with the silverfast software.
>
> It is a hard decision to make! Anyone out there using the
> Polaroid that has
> any user feed back.
>
> Adam
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: James Lerager [mailto:JLerager@...]
>   Sent: 14 November 2001 21:13
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Minolta Multi Pro Preliminary Report
>
>
>   (Cross-Posted w/ Piezo 3000 group)
>
>   I recently purchased a Minolta Multi Pro, and have been running
>   tests with it. The scan times seem excessively long, even though
>   I've assigned a full gig of ram to Minolta's scan software and am
>   using Firewire (on a G4 OS 9.1): 5 minutes for a 35mm B&W neg
>   at 4800, 10 minutes for a 35mm color neg at 4800, 20 minutes
>   for a color neg at 4800 with ICE3. These are without
>   multi-sampling, which dramatically increases scan times using
>   Minolta's scan software. (Digital Resources's review of the Multi
>   Pro seems to indicate the Multi-Pro actually scans about 10%
>   faster using a SCSI connection on a G3 compared with Firewire
>   on a G4 - figure that if you can!).
>
>   I've used a Minolta Scan Elite for the past 15 months with
>   excellent results - but only by using Vuescan software. My
>   positive experience with the Scan Elite - coupled with Vuescan -
>   is why I purchased the Multi-Pro. The Minolta software on the
>   Elite was slow, and gave mediocre scans, but Vuescan made
>   the unit shine - much better than a Nikon 2000 or Polaroid 4000
>   for B&W and for color neg (I tested both of them with their
>   respective manufacturer's software, although not with Vuescan).
>   Vuescan cut the scanning times approximately in half, with much
>   better quality and wider dynamic range, when compared to the
>   Minolta software. Even Ed's incorporated defect-removal
>   software seems to work better than the much vaunted ICE - and
>   without increasing scan times by very much - in my opinion.
>
>   Ed Hamrick has said that he plans to create a version of
>   Vuescan for the Multi-Pro, so I have my fingers crossed that he is
>   successful, and releases it soon, and that it scans rapidly and
>   efficiently, as Vuescan does on the Scan Elite. (Ed has also said
>   he plans to incorporate a histogram in Vuescan in the future -
>   which could really make it a dynamite program to use).
>
>   Minolta has created a beautiful and intuitive user interface for
>   their software, but the underlying scanning program is awful
>   (again in my opinion), and doesn't allow the user access to the
>   full quality - and potential speed - of the hardware (at least that
>   has been my experience using the Scan Elite).
>
>   Too bad for Minolta; they are definitely going to lose professional
>   enthusiasm and sales for what may be a beautiful piece of
>   hardware, which includes excellent film holders (they have even
>   included glass inserts for the 6x6 to 6x9 film holder along with
>   the scanner) - that is, unless they radically revise and improve
>   the quality and speed of their scanning software, and soon.
>
>   I plan to forward these exchanges to Minolta, and to Ed Hamrick.
>
>   My 2 cents,
>   James Lerager
>
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