On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Steve Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote: > At 6:10 PM -0800 2/17/09, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> I have and use both a Minolta Scan Dual II and Nikon Coolscan IV ED. >> Either can be found for well within or under your budget. Both do a superb >> job. >> >> The Nikon is a more robust unit and includes dust and scratch removal ( >> not usable with BW silver gelatin films). >> >> I don't use any of the manufacturers' software. I drive them both with >> VueScan. It does a better job. > > How about the dust removal, though? I have an Epson 4990 Photo with Digital > Ice which ViewScan does not support. It has its own infrared clean which > does not work so well. It still does a better job with respect to image > quality than the drivers which came with the scanner, though. > >> >> In some ways I like the scan quality of the Minolta more: it's lens has >> more DoF and handles severely curled film better. But the Nikon is faster >> and has slightly better acutance, and it's film carriers are sturdier >> (particularly the APS carrier). >> >> Both of these ~2900ppi scanners have made scans that produced superb 13x19 >> inch prints. > > I also own a Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV which I use for 35mm. It is great. > However, K-M got out of the scanner business at the same time they sold > their camera line to Sony, and I had a devil of a time finding a new driver > for the scanner when I went from my G4 running OS 10.3 to my Imac G5 running > 10.4 two years ago. It will probably be even more difficult now to find a > driver for OS 10.5. > > -- > > Steve Sharpe > [email protected] > •
Steve, Vuescan will solve your driver issues. It provides its own driver for the Scan Dual units on new OS's. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
