Digital BW, The Print

Mahesi,  Thanks for the Rockwell link.  I've had my Minolta 
scanner for a month or so now and am not quite as gushy about 
it.  I've really got to run some test scans vs. my friends Nikon 
8000.  I know it is not as clean as a $30,000 Scitex.

I am scanning negatives almost exclusively.  Rockwell scans 
slides.  The transparencies that I've scanned look fantastic, but 
I'm not about to stop shooting negative film.

I have two major complaints about scans of my b&w and color 
negs.  

1.  They look grainier than silver or color chemical prints of the 
same.  GEM helps improve this at the cost of very long scan 
times.  I've read that this grainy appearance is called "grain 
aliasing" and is aparent in most prosumer scanners.

2.  I am occasionally getting shadow noise that varies from 
posterization, to tiny dot patterns, to undescribable crappiness.  
This is minimized at 16X oversampling.  That's another time 
expanding process.  I've yet to determine if this kind of shadow 
wierdness happens in other scanners.

The Minolta Pro could be a great scanner if my two problems are 
common to all scanners in that price range and if the scan times 
were shorter.

Yours, Frank

http://www.culturalvisions.com

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