True and a good point that I did not mention, focusing more on the idea of scanning medium format at maximum optical resolutionjs without focusing on any particular model.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik Kaffehr Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format Hi! Just want to add that Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro also has a real 3200 PPI resolution for 120 (MF) film, which is almost a three times improvement over older models. Regards Erik Kaffehr lördagen den 15 december 2001 16.54 skrev du: > First it is not the "Dimage Scan II" that scans medium format but the > Dimage Scan Multi, the Dimage Scan Multi II, and the Dimage Scan Multi Pro > which scan medium format films. Minolta's model naming system can get very > confusing with like sounding and looking names. The Dimage Scan II, I > believe, is one of their 35mm film scanner models. > > Second, on the scanners that you are referring too, the Minolta scanner > software DOES NOT provide segment stitching features; you have to do this > manually in a program like Photoshop or by means of some "automated > stitching" third party software. > > Moreover, the ability to scan 1/3 sections of the film at the full optical > 35mm resolution is not a hardware feature of the named Minolta medium > format scanner but a function of a combination scanner software and > hardware film holder. If you use the two with any of the three medium > format models you can scan a medium format frame in sections at the > scanners full 35mm optical resolution; it is not peculiar or unique to any > of the medium format models of scanner offered by Minolta. What is unique > to the hardware of the newest medium format Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro > model is that it has a hardware infrared channel which allows for a dICE > feature which the two earlier Dimage Scan Multi models did not have. > > As for "Does/will this work as well as scanning the entire image?", one has > to answer tentatively yes but it is a time consuming pain in the butt to > work in sections and then to stitch them together as opposed to doing a > high optical scan of the entire frame. Between each of the three sectional > scans, one has to take out the film holder and rearrange the film in it so > as to relocate a new section in the proper orientation in the proper > location within the universal film holder. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy D'Angelo > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 6:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: filmscanners:minolta and med format > > > Greetings, > does anyone have any experience or advise re. using the Minolta > medium format scanner(dimage Scan II) and their stiching software. > ??I understand these med format scanners scan 35mm portions of the > 120 and "stitch" the scans together,Does/will this work as well as > scanning the entire image? > Andy -- Erik Kaffehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] alt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mariebergsvägen 53 +46 155 219338 (home) S-611 66 Nyköping +46 155 263515 (office) Sweden -- Message sent using 100% recycled electrons --