>Does anyone have any particular do's and don'ts for using this >particular model scanner. I bought one recently and need any help I >can get. >-- >Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 >Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
I have a Dimage Scan Dual and use it quite a bit. I recommend that you buy the latest version of Ed Hamrick's VueScan (available at http://www.hamrick.com) and use it to do the scans. Like most low-cost scanners, the Dual shows quite a bit of noise in dark regions of scanned slides. VueScan allows you do set up single- pass multi-scanning, which samples each point multiple times and saves the average. This really, really, really improves the output. The images in the pages below were all shot on Kodak E100VS and scanned with my Minolta Scan Dual scanner using VuesScan and a multi-scanning factor of 4. Almost all of these pictures have lots of dark areas in them. The VueScan output was much, much better than the best I could get with the Minolta software. http://www.westerickson.net/mark/pidgeonpoint/pidgeonpoint.html http://www.westerickson.net/mark/muirbeach/muirbeach.html http://www.westerickson.net/mark/rodeobeach/rodeobeach.html --Mark - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
