At 2:12 PM +0000 3/1/02, Steve Greenbank wrote: >There is a perceived problem with noise with the Canon FS4000. > >I wondered if the problem was related to the scanning software as I get much >less noise with Vuescan on a Microtek Artixscan 4000T (these are frequently >perceived as having more noise than Polaroid SS4000 - perhaps its the >software not better quality control as suggested on this list).
I think there is something to this. I get better scans using VueScan from my Minolta Scan Dual II - less noise as well as better colour. On a related topic - I've recently been using the Long Pass feature in VueScan, again with the Scan Dual II, and I'm amazed at the reduction in shadow noise. I stopped using Long Pass with my earlier Canon FS2710, because of a CCD overload problem which produced bright red smears in the scans. The Minolta doesn't seem to suffer from this problem, and I've been getting good scans from some previously almost unusable dark slides. Regards, Roger Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body