Very interesting, Dave. I can see I have got to get a Minolta film scanner (if/as long as I stick with film). I wonder for how long good and still better film scanners, let alone film, will be available. But I guess, at the end of the film aera, good (excellent) digital DSLRs will cost much less than the Minolta Dilmage 5700 - when or before (?) *ist D is ancient history.
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: David Miers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 25. maj 2004 22:26 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: Take a wild guess I managed to do a quick sample of the Minolta and Epson scans. If it makes anyone feel better the film was exposed in a PZ-1p Pentax... :). Here is a link to the crops. Dreamweaver's photo album function has a bad tendency to sort the thumbnails how ever it wants to rather then leaving them in the right order unfortunately. http://www.davesfotooptions.com/crops/index.htm I tried to make them all as similar and sized the same, although they didn't come out exact. I need a better set of reference points when making the crops. The scans other then cropping and resizing to the same size are untouched and exactly as Vuescan put them out. I used Vuescan with both scanners with the film profile and color settings the same. It's been a long time since I put a negative through the epson and now I remember why! It's very slow compared to the Minolta and the quality much poorer. You'll note more dust on the Minolta scans as dedicated film scanners tend to do. You'll also see the noise generated by the Minolta scanner here, but it is easily removed in PS still leaving more detail then a lower res scan with less noise. Again this is Fugi 400 NPS film. I was surprised there was little improvement in the 2400dpi scan over the 1600 in the epson? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Take a wild guess Thanks for the input, Dave. I would be interested in your future tests.
