![]() ![]() If you are looking for a scanner so you can e-mail pictures or archive an old slide collection then this scanner might work for you, but if you need it for anything where image quality is slightly important beware. If I was buying now, I would wait and get the Nikon coolscan 4. At the time of purchase this scanner was the only one that seemed to meet my needs. The scanner also takes a long time to scan, about 3-4 minutes for the highest resolution using the Minolta software, the Vuescan software seems to be slightly faster though. There was no consistency: slides, negatives, different brands of film, and speeds of film all come out poorly. Sometimes I get lucky with 'Auto' in Curves. I generally treat Vuescan as the first pass, save as a 16 bit TIFF, and then wrestle a lot with PhotoShop Curves. Sunsets come out yellow/green not orange and on bright, color saturated images the color is blown out (no detail can be seen) and the color bleeds from one area into another.Ive been scanning negatives with VueScan and have found that color correcting negatives in VueScan to be more of an art than a science.I work as a pre-press technician and graphic designer and this scanner is useless to me, if the poor color was consistent then it would be easy to adjust in Photoshop but the color acuracy varies very wildly. All in all, an excellent choice, and I recommend it highly to those who need/want an affordable, reliable and high quality film scanner in the 2800 dpi range. I have gotten good scans with Max Zoom 800, though. The second thing to do is set the color/white balance, which will help a lot. It takes a couple minutes to do, but leads to MUCH better results overall. I can offer a full write up when I get home. It seems to do best with Kodak Supra and Fuji Superia, and less so with Portra or Kodak Max 400. With Vuescan, the first thing to do is 'profile the film base'. ![]() This scanner does a great job with black and white negs and more than satisfactory with color negatives. I have to do a lot of correction (5 minutes per slide) in software to get them to look right. I suspect it's me, since the slides come out too dark and contrasty for my taste. I'm not sure if that's because of me, or the scanner. The main complaint with this scanner is that I don't like the way it scans slides. The fact that this is a Minolta product swayed me over Acer and the Pacific Image scanner. Choose the size you want to print at from the Output Printed size option. Select the Output tab on the Options panel. If you want to output the image to a printer go to the next step, otherwise click the Scan button now. The scans are accurate, and the supplied software is very helpful in doing prescan image correction, when needed. Select the Input tab on the Options panel. I was looking at a variety of film scanners, and when Focus Camera had this at $409, I said why not? I haven't regretted the decision. ![]()
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