The Elite is supposed to have better response in the shadows than the Dual II as a result of the higher bit depth A/D conversion.
When you speak of the dark areas of the neg, do you mean the areas which are dark in the positive result, or do you mean the areas that end up light on the positive which are denser on the neg? I think what you are seeing is a result of the speed of the scanner, which in effect might be underexposing the CCD element and then attempt to correct it by boosting the "gain". If you have access to Vuescan, try the slow scan mode (as opposed to the multiscan, which seems to help it very little) and see if you are happier with it. On the Dual II scanners I've seen, the blue channel is very noisy and it creates a bunch of yellow artifacts in the deeper shadows. Take a look at the channels individually (you might have to play with levels to see them clearly). On the output of Dual II scanners I've seen, including my own, the shadows look reasonable on the R and G channel but the blue is a minor disaster. Let me know what you determine on the one you are looking over. And yes, the Minolta scanners do seem to suffer from grain aliasing making the scans grainier than needbe. Art Ian Riches wrote: > <lovely long explanation of potential Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite II problems > snipped> > > Arthur, > > Thanks for this! Fortunatley, my (secondhand) Scan Elite II does not exhibit > this problem. What I do have, however, is a lot of noise in the dark areas > on negative film. Is this a known failing? Multi-sampling does not seem to > alleviate the problem. Is this just the grain that I am seeing? > > Thanks for any info (and any other hints on this scanner!) > > Ian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body