Sorry, should have gone off-list.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: medium format film scanners
>
> James:
>
> I finally got my 9000 last week and have been experimenting with it since.
> The as-supplied medium format film holder is a joke indeed! How indeed
> could
> it be assumed that the film would be anywhere near flat and ttightly
> fitting? The non-rotating glass MF film holder looks to be idiot proof or
> so
> I've so far.
>
> You mentioned below to select an autofocus point for each frame on an area
> of pure colour.
>
> How does one auto focus on a particular point of a frame?
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "james king" <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:01 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: medium format film scanners
>
>
>>
>> om4t@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> If anyone has experience with using a high end medium format film
>>> scanner
>>> I will appreciate whatever comments they might have to offer including
>>> info on the minimum computing power required to do justice to the
>>> scanner.
>>>
>> The minimum requirements for scanning are not that high, the data does
>> not come out of the scanner that fast and even with quite modest
>> machines I see no indication of the scan being any slower than my 3.6ghz
>> over clocked monster. Its the editing that eats resources. Even more so
>> if you want to edit one picture whilst scanning scanning another.
>>> In particular, someone has suggested that the Nikon Super Coolscan 9000
>>> ED is worth considering.
>>>
>>
>> My 9000ed has performed flawlessly for hundreds of rolls of 35mm and
>> medium format. It has a few querks for that you need to observe for
>> example, dont switch the computer on whilst the scanner is initialising
>> or the scans come out very very dark. This is fixed by switching the
>> scanner off and on again. If the computer is already fully started up
>> and you switch the scanner on all is well.
>> You really need to select the autofocus point for each frame
>> individually - having the autofocus point on an area of pure white or
>> very very dark colours does not work and the scanner will try to
>> autofocus several times and then give up. Autofocus on areas of pure
>> colour such as blue sky for example seems to work fine for me.
>> To be honest none of the scans I have made have the impact of a slide on
>> a light box. You are going to lose some sharpness AND very dark colours
>> will also tend to become black. I don't care what the Dmax figures are
>> for a CCD scanner. Scan a HCT calibration slide and crank up the
>> brightness and you *will* see the loss of colour in the darkest patches
>> even when its been calibrated using the HCT and 16 bit profiles are
>> used. Try the same trick with a drum or very very very expensive scanner
>> and the colours are all there... this loss of dark colour information
>> occurs on the Minolta scan elite 5400 which is does not have a led light
>> source and is far worse on the Minolta dual scan 4 (which also suffers
>> from bad CCD noise and is nto that sharp)
>>> I know that this subject has been aired before and so to save list space
>>> taking up old news any off-list responses will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> John Hudson
>>>
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