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Subject: [OM] Re: Test scans from walt - minolta 5400
From: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 18:04:23 -0300
on 22/05/2004 01:34, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Adam,
> 
> I'm still a relative newbie with the Minolta scanner, but I haven't noticed
> any particular problems with Velvia.
[snip]
> Walt

>> The one thing I have found with the scanner is that I find it hard to get a
>> good scan from Velvia! Not that it is bad but it seems to have trouble
>> picking up all the detail. I dont know whether that is because it is such a
>> high contrast and saturated film. But when I look at the slide under a loupe
>> it is pin sharp and the scan just seems to be muddled like it cant get all
>> the info from the slide?
>> Any comments on your findings!
>> Cheers Adam

Maybe the Minolta is not the only one.
My submission to this TOPE (still not uploaded) was scanned w/Nikon CoolScan
4000 and looks muddled compared to the slide, I'd say less 'luminous' reds
and yellows, and green leaves show a little blue when blowing up 300% the
4000 dpi original PS file. The .jpg submission looks as mudded. Again, no PS
curves or whatever were adjusted. I observed this both on my inexpensive
Apple 15AV and on a eMac CRT monitor, carefully adjusted. I didn't feel
encouraged to print it.
Comments will be welcomed from those who have better monitors, though you
won't have the original to compare to. My 2 cents.

/F. 


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