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Subject: [OM] Re: Comment on film scanner performance
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:29:44 -0500
Brian, what do you mean by "fine scan-lines"?  Can you describe them?

ScottGee1

On 1/27/07, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the comments on the Minolta Dimage.  There is one available for
> sale in this city at a Cash Converters, and they have put it up for auction.
> Start price is about $US 200, but I have no idea what the reserve is. I might
> call in to the shop and see what the floor price is.
>
> It won't run with W'95, but it seems possible that I might be inheriting my
> son's machine some time soon (he is moving to Wellington and will be
> flatting with an old friend who has lots of computer contacts since he works
> for our equivalent of Homeland Security in the data / analysis / etc area, and
> expects to be able to get a good machine for not very much through him). He
> is running XP on it but he might just take the HDD with him, as it has lots of
> his stuff on it..  However, I can pick up lesser O/S systems for not too much.
>
> I'm using an HP Photosmart at the moment and it's nice (and its own
> software works really well), but I see all too often in the prints, fine 
> scan-lines
> and long zones of diffuse funny fuzzy that must be coming from the scanner.
>
> Such defects will probably become more important to me soon as I am
> starting to work with bigger prints as I am trying to sell prints.
>
> Actually, close inspection of prints produced at the Fuji lab where I get my
> stuff printed also shows fine scan-lines on big prints from 35mm negatives -
> which I think isn't good.
>
> Brian
>
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