Hi again, for those who didn't get the story yet: Nikon LS-30 died, ordered Minolta Dimage Scan Elite II, turned out unusable due to banding issues (see http://schmode.net/banding_channels.jpg for the disaster), Minolta, my dealer and I agreed to have the unit replaced, went to the post office today to pick it up, installed it...
...and the same thing starts all over again :-((( See http://schmode.net/banding_new_unit.jpg for what the replacement unit does to my slides. I tried a RAM upgrade to 384 MB (which I had planned anyway), ran the unit on another machine, tried Vuescan instead of the Minolta software - nothing helped. BTW, there's banding in *all* of the color channels. The jpg file above only shows it in the red channel but the original scan (without the jpg artifacts) shows (much less of) a *diagonal* banding. Before I throw the whole thing back into the cardboard box, I'll save a scan in .bmp format just in case anyone wants it for analysis. You won't possibly believe how enthusiastic I am about Minolta and their products :-((( On Monday I'll talk to my dealer and have the bloody thing replaced with a Nikon LS-40. Frustrated greetings from Germany - Ralf -- My animal photo page on the WWW: http://schmode.net Find my PGP keys (RSA and DSS/DH) on PGP key servers (use "TrustCenter" certified keys only) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
