Hi Dominick,
Let me know how B&H treats you -- if they give you a hard time or not
regarding the return. If they're good guys about it, I'll consider ordering
from
them. I didn't realize that American stores gave returns on faulty product.
Kindest regards,
Patrick Cullinan, Jr.
Dominik Kacprzak wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> I didn't even get this far. My scanner consistently produces a light,
> vertical line across the entire slide. First, I thought that my slide was
> scratched, but after rotating a slide, it became apparent that the line is
> introduced by the scanner. It happens with or without ICE turned on. Also,
> I tested ROC and GEM features, they introduced a lot of artifacts on slides,
> I haven't found them useful at all.
>
> It's a bummer, because I liked the other features of this scanner, native
> 16bit scanning, dynamic range, slide loading... Tomorrow the scanner is
> going back to BhPhoto and I'm going to buy either a Nikon Coolscan IV or
> CanoScan FS-2720, or stick with my old Elite.
>
> - Dominik
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> > [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Ralf Schmode
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:02 PM
> > To: dominik@arsdigita.com
> > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Minolta Dimage Elite II
> >
> >
> > Dominik Kacprzak schrieb:
> >
> > [LS-30 shadow banding]
> >
> > > Hi Ralf,
> > >
> > > do you have any suggestions for how to test this issue? I've
> > just got my
> > > Elite II delivered. I wonder how US version compares with what you got.
> >
> >
> > Hi, Dominik,
> >
> > pretty simple. Just take a dense, contrasty slide and scan it at highest
> > resolution. Open the scan with your image processing software and
> > increase the gamma value to about 3. View at 100, better 200 % of
> > original size.
> >
> > If there are no visible, periodic artefacts, split the picture into the
> > RGB channels and look again. If everything's still smooth, you've got
> > one of the *good* units.
> >
> > BTW, my banding examples are at .
> >
> > See ya -
> >
> > Ralf
>
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