mark, i must say your pictures are too good. you surely have a good camera sense and good eye too.
have a question on scanner. i am using hp s20 so won't be able to compare directly. however, are you saying there is substantial difference by using vuescan ? minolta's software won't be able to give you those results ? thanks in advance anand >From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "pentax-discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Minolta Dimage Scan Dual Do's & Don'ts >Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:20:16 GMT > >>Does anyone have any particular do's and don'ts for using this >>particular model scanner. I bought one recently and need any help I >>can get. >>-- >>Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 >>Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail > >I have a Dimage Scan Dual and use it quite a bit. I recommend >that you buy the latest version of Ed Hamrick's VueScan (available >at http://www.hamrick.com) and use it to do the scans. Like most >low-cost scanners, the Dual shows quite a bit of noise in dark >regions of scanned slides. VueScan allows you do set up single- >pass multi-scanning, which samples each point multiple times >and saves the average. This really, really, really improves the >output. > >The images in the pages below were all shot on Kodak E100VS and >scanned with my Minolta Scan Dual scanner using VuesScan and >a multi-scanning factor of 4. Almost all of these pictures have >lots of dark areas in them. The VueScan output was much, much >better than the best I could get with the Minolta software. > >http://www.westerickson.net/mark/pidgeonpoint/pidgeonpoint.html > >http://www.westerickson.net/mark/muirbeach/muirbeach.html > >http://www.westerickson.net/mark/rodeobeach/rodeobeach.html > >--Mark >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
