filmscanners: Re: Minolta Multi Pro with negs

[David Harris]

Tomasz

Firstly, the question of Vuescan and the Minolta Multi
Pro. I, and others, have found that in practical terms
Vuescan does not work with the MSMP and firewire under
W2k. But apparently it works well with SCSI
connection.

Secondly, the MSMP native software seems to do a
pretty good job with colour negative film, although
you might have to fiddle a little with curves. Vuescan
is supossed to do a good job, too.

Regards

David Harris
 --- Tomasz Zakrzewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
I havent't put my hands on any filmscanner yet, I
> haven't seen any in action
> neither.
> That's why I have to ask this simple question:
> How one scans negs with scanning software from
> Minolta?. Does it have
> separate profiles for different neg types or is it
> done differently?
> I ask because currently I'm saving money to buy
> Minolta Multi Pro. I like
> almost every aspect of this machine, I'm only
> worried about the Minolta's
> software performance with negs, as I read "The
> Minolta scanner lacks any
> film terms for color negative film so the colors
> suck for scans from color
> negs" somewhere on the Net.
> 80% of my film material are negs, unfortunately.
> I can't verify if the above cited statement is
> exagerrated or is it true.
> If yes, than I can only count on VueScan's
> capabilities. But then I'm a
> little bit concerned about my chances for support
> from Ed Hamrick. I asked
> him two days ago how well VueScan supports the
> Minolta Multi Pro, if there
> are any incompabilities, but he doesn't feel like
> answering my question.
> I once made the mistake to ask Mr.Hamrick a
> non-VueScan related question and
> now he seems to treat me as a nuisance and avoids
> answering my e-mails.
> Mr.Hamrick, I promise not to ask you anymore about
> "what to choose" ! ;-)
> 
> Anyway, coming back to my initial question: will I
> get good neg scan from
> Minolta Multi Pro?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tomasz Zakrzewski
>  

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Re: filmscanners: Re: Minolta Multi Pro with negs

[EdHamrick]

In a message dated 12/17/2001 8:10:10 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

> I, and others, have found that in practical terms
>  Vuescan does not work with the MSMP and firewire under
>  W2k. But apparently it works well with SCSI
>  connection.

It works fine with Firewire.  The trick is to put the dsscan.inf
file from my web site into c:\windows\inf (or c:\winnt\inf) and
then reload the driver.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

Re: filmscanners: Re: Minolta Multi Pro with negs

[David Harris]

Ed

This works once, but there are two unfortunate side
effects:

1. Every time that Vuescan is closed the driver seems
to need to be reloaded before Vuescan can be run
again.

2. The Minolta software crashes after loading the new
driver, and needs to be reinstalled.

I know of one other user who has experiened exactly
the same problem.

Regards

David

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated
12/17/2001 8:10:10 AM EST,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> writes:
> 
> > I, and others, have found that in practical terms
> >  Vuescan does not work with the MSMP and firewire
> under
> >  W2k. But apparently it works well with SCSI
> >  connection.
> 
> It works fine with Firewire.  The trick is to put
> the dsscan.inf
> file from my web site into c:\windows\inf (or
> c:\winnt\inf) and
> then reload the driver.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed Hamrick 

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