The good news is I run a 5400-II with Vuescan. The bad news is I haven't a clue why yours isn't working.
Did you run that calibration step that the software requests? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday I tried to use Vuescan but it was frustrating. Here's the > situation: my old > Nikon LS4000 is in urgent need of cleaning. I had a Minolta 5400-II on the > shelf in an > unopened box. Right after I bought it Minolta abandoned the business so I > just forgot > about the unit. Now I need to use it. Minolta's software is worse than awful. > Any > adjustment in the scanner interface at all blows out all the highlights. I > have hundreds > of valuable and faded historical images to restore. > > So, Vuescan to the rescue. No matter how I set the input and output options I > get > nothing. The preview scan is dark gray and the output is just a file with all > black > pixels. I don't remember that ever happening before but I haven't used > Vuescan for a > couple of years. What glaringly obvious mistake am I making? I am clueless. > > -- > Cary Enoch Reinstein... aka enochsvision, Enoch's Vision Inc. > Photography, Poetry http://www.enochsvision.com Baha'i History: > http://www.viewsofakka.com > Blog: http://enochsvision.wordpress.com Videos: > http://www.youtube.com/enochsvision9 > Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all > things. > The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object. - > Joseph Campbell > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
