Hi Trevor!
Indeed, this has been discussed before (back in August/September, I recall).
The upshot is that it APPEARS that the US$380.00 UH-M1 includes some
stitching software that will allow making three 2880dpi stripe passes on an
MF image, and combining them to make one high res image. Of course there
are plenty of other stitching programs out there, some for free! When I
have the time and an extra film holder, I hope to make my own similar holder
for my Multi II.
The idea of combining a high res center stripe with a lower res overall
image doesn't appeal to me very much, personally. If the area of interest
is in a horizontal stripe at 90degrees to the film travel in the scanner,
you're hosed, unless you cut the individual negative (only good for 6x6 and
smaller!) out of the strip and rotate it by 90 degrees. I don't like to do
this, either!
I realize that the above includes speculation from me, based upon that which
I have read here, but the opinions are my own! I haven't read of anyone
here actually purchasing a UH-M1. If anyone has, please let us know the
scoop!!!!
Hope that this helps!
Guy Clark
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> I sent the original message just at the point of the list change over
> so I'm not sure if it found its way out, anyway here it is again
> (apologies if its a duplicate)
>
> Trevor S
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> I have a question for anyone using a Minolta Scan Multi 2 concerning
> the medium format 2820dpi scan function.
>
> My understanding is that there are 3 scanning routines for MF film
> with the Mk2:
>
> (1) 1128dpi full frame optical
> (2) 2820dpi full frame interpolated
> (3) 2820dpi horizontal centre section only
>
> I recently wrote to Minolta UK about the availability of the UH-MI
> holder because I was interested in how to scan two sections of the
> frame at 2820dpi and stitch them together. I had a helpful reply
> which included the following,
>
> "This can be achieved in two ways, there is a setting for
> interpolated 2820dpi scanning where the scan will be made with the
> middle section of the image at true 2820dpi with the extreme edges
> set at 1128dpi and interpolated using a Minolta algorithm to 2820dpi"
>
> What I'd like to know is, is this actually how it works in practice
> and can you detect any difference in the final scan between the full
> resolution 2820dpi centre section and the interpolated edges.
>
> Trevor S
>
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