These negatives seem to be in quite good shape despite 2 scratches and some dust spots if you did not clean up the scan. I got more dust on mine (even fresh from the labs sometimes) and the fix up was quite a lot of boring work in Photoshop due to the missing ICE in the Minolta Dual scan II. They still get quite good prices on auctions here btw. I'm really glad that I do not have to scan again every photo I take! But I do miss the Spotmatic F and the full metal lenses, I must test drive the M42 SMC 85mm 1.8 and the 35mm 3.5 next week on the K10D... Greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:05 PM To: DUG; PDML List; PAW; SeePhoto Talk; Submini-L List Subject: PESO 2007 - Cotton Cafe - GDG I bought a used Nikon LS-40 (Coolscan IV ED) scanner last summer but hadn't gotten around to evaluating it until this past couple of weeks. Well, the more I explore it, the more I feel it's time to switch to it and pull out some of my older film work, rescan it and edit it into my portfolio properly ... and sell off the older Minolta Scan Dual II film scanner. But I couldn't do that until I ascertained whether I could scan my subminiature film from Minox and other cameras with the Nikon properly. With the Minolta, I found I was able to just lay the Minox film across the 35mm film strip carrier, center it in an aperture, and scan. The optics and illuminator didn't have any flare to speak of, unlike my previous Polaroid SprintScan 35E/S for which making a mask to carry the negative was essential. I wondered if the Nikon would work the same as the Minolta. The FH-3 strip holder is a lot more sophisticated than the holder for the Minolta in most ways but it is definitely designed for strips of up to six 35mm negatives .. the cross pieces are incomplete, which always make me think my ten frame strip of Minox 8x11mm film might get caught or damaged as I move the carrier into and out of the scanner. To solve this lack, I just cut a couple of post-it notes and made bridges so that the ends of the Minox film strip would be supported in something. I then carefully laid the film across the carrier such that the frame I wanted was properly centered in a scan aperture. The carrier was inserted into the scanner, Vuescan fired up, and I clicked the preview button. A rotation, some tweaks to the scan settings for white point and gamma, turn OFF the infrared cleaning (my, does it make a mess to traditional silver-grain film!) set 2900 ppi scan density and output file destination, scan. Voila! My first Minox 8x11 negative scan in about 6 years! http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/17a.htm This was a negative from my 1999 Thanksgiving trip to North Carolina. The day after T-Day, I rented a car and drove from Raleigh to Hendersonville to visit with one of my best photo buddies, whom I hadn't seen for almost 16 years at that point. I can see that my camera had a nasty hair stuck in the film gate for this entire roll but, other than that, the quality is really very nice to my eye! Couple of minor scratches, etc. No edits whatsoever have been done to this photo other than using my usual scripts to size and render a web-display photo, same for the larger version ... that large version when you click on it is just about exactly the full size as it comes out of Vuescan. I guess I can retire the Scan Dual II finally. enjoy, Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
