Minola Scan Dual IV users- Your Process?

[djon]

Suggestion from a Nikon V user: don't do multiple pass scanning until you've got single pass under control. Multiple passes take a lot of time and the benefit may be iffy or, as with current Nikon V, it be bad practice (registration issues of multiple passes). Some scanners are fine with multi-pass (eg my Epson 3200, Nikon 2000 etc) some are not (my Nikon V). Nikonscan doesn't allow multi pass because they know it's not good with this machine. Vuescan allows the same machine to do infinite numbers of passes, but it definitely loses sharpness that way.

Multi pass seems with some scanners to reduce dust. When this happens it's because dust is out of register between passes, which means sharpness is being lost.

I wouldn't bother with Vuescan with Minolta until I got the Minolta application under control with color. After good color, if B&W was fine, I'd stick with Minolta. If not, I'd definitely try Vuescan. My point is that color may be easier than B&W.

 

[dmr]

Suggestion from a Nikon V user: don't do multiple pass scanning until you've got single pass under control. Multiple passes take a lot of time and the benefit may be iffy or, as with current Nikon V, it be bad practice (registration issues of multiple passes). Some scanners are fine with multi-pass (eg my Epson 3200, Nikon 2000 etc) some are not (my Nikon V). Nikonscan doesn't allow multi pass because they know it's not good with this machine. Vuescan allows the same machine to do infinite numbers of passes, but it definitely loses sharpness that way.

It appears that when you set the Minolta for n times sampling, it does only one physical scan, but takes n successive samples at each point. The carrier only moves forward once, but the 2x scans take longer than 1x and so forth.

To be totally honest, I probably couldn't tell the difference between a 1x and a 4x scan just by looking at it. A 2x or 4x doesn't take that much longer so that's what I'm in the habit of doing.

 

[UUronL]

I scan anywhere from 1 to 16x. Vuescan only. Depending on the film, I'll use Noise Ninja for grain reduction. I have a very extensive PS workflow that I tweak here and there to get my results. I recently processed the 6 shots in this gallery - shot with my CV Nokton 40/1.4 S.C.

First three images are Fuji Neopan 100 Acros (lab screwed it up - some splotches and watermarks are visible)

Last three are Velvia 50

http://www.dcgambits.com/gallery/album05


This album was TMAX 3200, also shot with the 40/1.4. Only the last image had noise removal performed. All others are original grain.

http://www.dcgambits.com/gallery/album03