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Alex Stols
Hello,
I experience some problems with Vuescan (versions 7.6 as well as
8.0b3 and 8.0) scanning color negatives with my new Minolta Scan Dual
IV.
1- there appear faint colored bands on all scans in the direction of
the film holder movement, difficult to see, but present all the same.
At first I overlooked them, but as the edges are perfectly straight,
but they became easier to spot after I did some more scans. No
banding appears when I use the Minolta software.
2- when I set the "Number of samples" to 2 or higher, the results
show very brightly colored bands, all the same width, with sharp
edges. The predominant colors are cyan, magenta, yellow and blue. The
image is present, but only faintly. This phenomenon disappears at
scan resolutions of less than 1600, but not at 1600 and up.
3- the auto focus doesn't seem to work, I have to use manual focus to
get sharp scans. For example auto focus finds a setting of 0.925,
while testing manually I come up with 0.2. When focussing the scanner
is busy a much longer time in v 8.0 than in 7.6. But none of the 2
versions succeeded in focussing the image correctly.
I am very new at this work, so probably I am doing things wrong, but
whatever I try as suggested in the manual or as mentioned here in the
group: things stay as I describe here.
Scanning BW negatives is fine: I have the feeling Vuescan is doing a
better job here than Minolta.
Is anyone here having the same experiences with the same scanner as I
have? As I am a newbie I want to make sure it is not me before I
submit this to Ed. Thank you in advance for any help.
I experience some problems with Vuescan (versions 7.6 as well as
8.0b3 and 8.0) scanning color negatives with my new Minolta Scan Dual
IV.
1- there appear faint colored bands on all scans in the direction of
the film holder movement, difficult to see, but present all the same.
At first I overlooked them, but as the edges are perfectly straight,
but they became easier to spot after I did some more scans. No
banding appears when I use the Minolta software.
2- when I set the "Number of samples" to 2 or higher, the results
show very brightly colored bands, all the same width, with sharp
edges. The predominant colors are cyan, magenta, yellow and blue. The
image is present, but only faintly. This phenomenon disappears at
scan resolutions of less than 1600, but not at 1600 and up.
3- the auto focus doesn't seem to work, I have to use manual focus to
get sharp scans. For example auto focus finds a setting of 0.925,
while testing manually I come up with 0.2. When focussing the scanner
is busy a much longer time in v 8.0 than in 7.6. But none of the 2
versions succeeded in focussing the image correctly.
I am very new at this work, so probably I am doing things wrong, but
whatever I try as suggested in the manual or as mentioned here in the
group: things stay as I describe here.
Scanning BW negatives is fine: I have the feeling Vuescan is doing a
better job here than Minolta.
Is anyone here having the same experiences with the same scanner as I
have? As I am a newbie I want to make sure it is not me before I
submit this to Ed. Thank you in advance for any help.