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Re: [Digital BW] New Dimage Scan Elite 5400 scanner

Re: [Digital BW] New Dimage Scan Elite 5400 scanner

2003-07-10 by Tim Rudman

I too am considering a film scanner - ideally for 35mm & MF at 645 for both BW negs and colour trannies, so I would also be interested in your replies - especially re B&W.
Tim
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dequnicey 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:19 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] New Dimage Scan Elite 5400 scanner


  Hi,
  I'm in the market for a new negative scanner, and looking for user's 
  experiences with the new Minolta which has just reached the retailers 
  here in the UK. Has anyone had any experience of this machine yet? 
  I realise that resolutions of over 4000 are of debateable advantage, 
  but I'm looking  particularly for information on the dMax in actual 
  practice as opposed to advertising fantasy figures.
  Thanks,
  John Adey


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RE: [Digital BW] New Dimage Scan Elite 5400 scanner

2003-07-10 by Daniel Staver

> I too am considering a film scanner - ideally for 35mm & MF 
> at 645 for both BW negs and colour trannies, so I would also 
> be interested in your replies - especially re B&W. Tim

Check my previous posts about the 5400 scanner - I really like it, but
it's slow for color. I mostly scan BW anyway so I'm happy. It only
supports 35mm, not MF... 

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

RE: [Digital BW] New Dimage Scan Elite 5400 scanner

2003-07-11 by Daniel Staver

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.


--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

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