Paul, Thanks for the tips. I have been scanning quite a bit with mine (using VueScan), and still find that the scans just don't have the sharpness that my Minolta Scan Dual II film scanner has. Everything is just a little soft. I am finding that some slides (unmounted) do have some focus problems, but the majority of my negatives are ok. But nothing is as sharp as I would expect.
I am considering returning the unit due to the mediocre performance that I am getting. Unless I am doing something drastically wrong, it just isn't going to satisfy me. Bruce Dayton Thursday, April 04, 2002, 3:14:42 AM, you wrote: PE> Hi Bruce, PE> I've had my 2450 for about three weeks now and haven't noticed any PE> particlular sharpness problem. I've tried it out with 35mm slides, 35mm neg PE> strips (colour and B&W), 6x9 positive, 6x9 B&W negs and 4x5 B&W negs and PE> they've all seemed quite good. I did notice that some of the 6x9 negs which PE> may have been 620 or something older were fractionally wider than the space PE> in the holder and did tend to bow just slightly. PE> Given that it is set to focus at half the thickness of a slide mount, you PE> could try mounting the film and popping the slides directly onto the glass. PE> The only thing the 35mm slide holder does is keep the slides square, so PE> there shouldn't be any problem with that. PE> What I am going to have to do is find a good way of keeping dust and other PE> crap off the glass. That is already a big problem. I'm guessing that some PE> sort of antistatic procedure is needed. PE> Other than that, and having learned how to disable all the automatic PE> controls that were preventing me from scanning 4x5 and 6x9, I have been very PE> happy with the 2450. It replaced an old Microtek 4x5 scanner which had a PE> better dynamic range but was very difficult to use. Best of all, I was able PE> to sell the Microtek fior the same price I paid 18 months ago. PE> Paul Ewins PE> Melbourne, Australia PE> - PE> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, PE> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to PE> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - 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 .
