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Subject: [OM] Re: Canon and Minolta scanner
From: alfredo pagliano <alfredo_pag@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:14:18 +0200
Saturation can be treated with postprocessing, anyway

Alfredo

On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:08 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:

>
> Hi James,
>
> I found your review short but vey clear, for the color it is same as my
> experience and also my friend who owned the M*nolta scanner. I had 
> tried a
> Scan Speed (the 2800dpi M*nolta top of the line at that time) for two 
> weeks,
> the color was not as accurate and under saturated for both slide and
> negative (with original software). At that time the resoluton of 
> M*nolta was
> better than my N*kon LS2000 but the color of LS2000 was much more 
> accurate
> (for slide).
>
> I have a 4000ED for some years, compare to LS2000 it has slightly 
> better
> color accuracy and much higher resolution, just enable N*kon color
> management and no calibration is required to get accuracy color (for 
> slide).
> It also has very low noise and good shadow details but it possess the 
> same
> problem you mentioned for the 5400, it has flare that shown on the 
> drak area
> besides the white. The scanning speed is very fast too but it is well 
> known
> for shallow DOF, to scan at full resolution I have to focus at a few 
> points
> on the slide and set the value in between to get a better result.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>>
>> i have the older scan elite 5400 but I mainly scan slides and some
>> kodachromes
>> its okish for me using vuescan, I find the saturation low and the edge
>> definition is not what I hoped for. Few slides look truly sharp 
>> without
>> photo shop unsharp mask even though most of the shots I take look fine
>> under a light table and are taken on a tripod with appature and mirror
>> prefire @ f8 or f11. The infra red cleaning is a nice feature and the 
>> scan
>> speeds using usb 2 are quite fast. @5400 dpi 48 bit colour you will 
>> make
>> large files! 200MB 48 bit color and 250 ish if you include the infra 
>> red.
>> Its well built - mostly metal but does get a little hot with long 
>> sessions
>> 4 hours  or more. The slide holder allows you to quickly change slides
>> without ejecting the holder - nice feature. Its scan quality is better
>> than the scan dual 4 which is noisy and has no IR channel. I have no
>> experience of the n?k*n to compare it to. I find that it takes a 
>> while for
>> the cathode inside to warm up and become stable. Getting the exposure
>> right is a bit of an art. Increasing the exposure time on the scanner 
>> can
>> quite quickly make light colours white and increasing the exposure a
>> little more results in whites becomming noisy light blue/greys. e.g. 
>> at
>> exposure 1.3 whites are fine and by 1.5 there is slight clipping and 
>> by
>> 1.8 its bad...
>> at exposure 1.3 you lose the last 2 or 3 wdeges on an IT8 slide colour
>> calibration target even @ 48 bit 16 scans. Some flare evident in 
>> bright
>> white areas next to dark areas.
>>
>> Summary good at extracting detail from light areas of the slide, some
>> flare, poor at shadow detail over the last half a stop on the slide, 
>> edge
>> sharpness and saturation not enought for me. IR cleaning is very 
>> useful
>> slide holder allows fast swapping of slides.
>>
>> disclaimer:
>> This is my experience of the *original* scan elite 5400 the mark II 
>> may be
>> quite different. Also no medium format means I have outgrown it.
>>
>> Regards
>> James
>
>
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