I have been in correspondence with the person involved with this website for many months now regarding this matter, and I do not find his claims to be unreasonable. He is not claiming better resolution. He is claiming better color fidelity with considerably less grain, dirt, dust, scratches and other surface defects with negatives on the Minolta Pro.
The Minolta scanners, and in particular the Pro when used with negative film, tends to show great exaggeration of grain and surface defects. Due to my owning a Minolta Dual II which does not even have dICE, I was interested in this matter, because it too suffers from these problems. I have been reporting for over a year now my surprise that the Minolta Dual II suffers from these "defects" as it is supposed to be a cold cathode diffused lighting source. One consideration I gave was that possibly it was overfocused for the scanner resolution, leading to Nyquist errors being added to the scan and offered that perhaps selective defocusing might reduce them. At that time, although I mentioned it might be something odd with the lighting source, I never expected Minolta would opt for doing something to collimate the light (perhaps via a condenser) in order to create the "perceived" sharper image hardened grain and edges tend to do. But it may be just what has been done, and to my way of thinking, this only serves to degrade the image scan, because it makes it very difficult to use USM successfully. Although I don't use the Minolta much now, I have used the Polaroid Dust and Scratch filter with the Minolta scans to some advantage, but I think that ultimately, the better answer is a diffused light source. Art Major A wrote: >>Intresting link >>http://www.visicon.se/mp/ >> > > Is it just me, or do these guys see an enhancement in resolution that > isn't there? > > They forget to mention that scanning times also increase, and they > probably get more noise as well. > > Interesting nevertheless! > > Maybe I should put that diffusor back into the LS-30 that I used when > debugging a hardware problem the other day? > > Andras > > =========================================================================== > Major Andras > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://andras.webhop.org/ > =========================================================================== > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body