James
I thought so! You were being all proficient and knowing what you
were doing, whereas I was merely bumbling along, satisfied with
whatever it gave me ;-) But the displaced second image might have
indicated an out-of-register scanning system, perhaps?
Chris
~~ >-)-
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On 29 Jan 2007, at 12:27, James King wrote:
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> Chris Barker wrote:
>> I have a feeling, James, that you had a duff Minolta 5400. The only
>> snags that I have had have been self-induced, e.g. wrong settings in
>> Vuescan or failing to move the AF spot to somewhere with a decent
>> line and contrast. I am not a very discerning individual (with scans
>> at least ;-)) but I have never seen noise (from your previous post)
>> or flare in my scans. I have found grain, certainly, but noise or
>> flare? It is possible that you and I use different films and suffer
>> from different scanning problems as a result ...
>>
> Sorry Chris,
> I should have mentioned that *both* the noise and flare only show
> up if
> you use photoshop and increase the levels quite considerably. Which I
> did because I wanted to compare the two scanners. If memory serves me
> correctly it was somthing like +7.0 for the gamma for both scanners
> after I had made profiles using incamera with a HCT velvia slide. The
> gamma is way way beyond that I normally use. In practice the noise of
> the 5400mk1 was not a problem and the flare was barely detectable in
> normal use. The flare looked like a double image displaced to the
> bottom
> and right as if it was a secondary reflection from the back of a
> mirror
> or somthing like that. rather than equal in every direction
> James
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