Hello, I use a Minolta Elite II for 2 yeas now and want to upgrade to a higher resolution. At the moment I prefer the Minolta 5400 over the Nikon Coolscan V but I have heared of the very slow speed...

About a month ago, I posted about Vuescan producing some really nasty noise in dark areas of my scans (using a Scan Dual III). I got a few suggestions about minimizing grain with Neat Image,...

Hi, I've been following the "advanced workflow suggestions" in order to determine the proper RGB & FBC exposure for my slide scans and I've found something which I don't quite understand: If I use...

Hi there! I got hold of Wolf Faust's IT8 targets for Fuji Astia/Sensia/Provia. Now I am wondering whyt film base color I should use. As there are different targets fpr different manufacturers I...

Please help! I have a Primax Colorado D600 scanner, made in 1998. Now i'd like to run it on Win XP. Primax doesn't have a XP driver for it. Is there any help for me? :-( Thx

Sorry, in addition to the info below I forgot to add that the garbled scan is not just the item scanned, but the whole area over which the scanner passes including that outside the item to be scanned...

Hi All - I've been migrating all my hardware and software over to a new Dell 4600 desktop - Windows XP Home. I installed my Scanmaker 4800 (which worked fine under my old Dell with Win Xp Home) but...

Hi, Around 1998 I had an HP PhotoSmart neg and slide scanner and on these newsgroups everyone complained about the dumb-down software that HP supplied with it. Some guy named "Matt" had written his...

I have a HP 3200c scanner. How do I take an original document(a letter)and either E-mail it or put it in a word processor(Wordperfect)still in its original format?

Minolta has posted version 1.1.3 of their scan software on the web site. I have not been able to find any documentation as to what has changed. -- Robert D Feinman Landscapes, Cityscapes and...

In case you didn't see it in alt.comp.periphs.scanner, a person stating to be with Lasersoft claimed that Silverfast Ai and SE "will soon support the Perfection 3170 as well as the 1670 and the...

Hello, I just installed the new release of VueScan 7.6.78 so that I can use it with my also new Epson 3170 scanner. Unfortunatly, when the scanner is ON, VueScan hangs when I start it. If the Epson...

As it's February 29th and we get a "bonus" day this year ;o) I decided to use this "free" time to give VueScan another look... As soon as I started it I realized why I disliked its "user...

Finally got to try scanning some Kodachromes with my new LS 5000. Very dark scans at first (even though the slides seem correctly exposed), but after allowing 1% exposure clipping things looked...

HP Pavilion 8755c, 256MB, 30 GB SCSI Card (it seemed to load correctly) Minolta Scan Elite Epson 3200 I loaded Redhat on my computer and then loaded Vuescan .79. The first time I ran Vuescan it...

What's the minimum number of d.p.i. that I should get my three- by nine-inch transparencies scanned at on a drum scanner for them to prints sharply and with maximum detail on an Epson 7600...

I have an iMac with the current version of Mac OS X. I installed all the software, connected the power and USB cables and turned the scanner on. The green light blinks to show it's initializing but...

Has anyone put the scanners below to the test of how well they can detect the actual dynamic range of an image and values for Dmin and Dmax? The manufacturuers seem to focus more on the number of...

Hi all I am trying to set up a color managed workflow so that scans match real slides in color. I use Vuescan (7.6.78) and IT8 targets from Wolf Faust to calibrate my Canon FS4000. After spending for...

Just read an article (Digital Photography Made Easy, UK publication, pg 31) that basically says the depth of field is different for images taken with a digital camera than for a film camera. It...