gary wrote: > 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?
:::embarrassed::: Yes, after I read your email! Vuescan works just fine now and the results are beautiful. Thank you. > [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
