MINOLTA DIMAGE SCAN DUAL III SOFTWARE DRIVER

This thread is locked. Send them to the editor. If you plan to manipulate the scanned images much on the computer, you're better off leaving the unsharp masking alone until you're done with your retouching. Easy Scan Utility Included as a separate, standalone application, the Easy Scan utility runs almost like a typical "Wizard" application on a PC, guiding you step-by-step through the scanning process. Digital ICE works very well for both dust and emulsion defects. Ideally I would borrow one, take detailed measurements and make a 3d print file for others who have lost their tray.

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Takes you to a preferences screen, where you can adjust a number of settings for both the scanner and the scanning software.

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A slider bar next to the pulldown menu adjusts the amount of difference between each variation. The Auto button at the bottom of the window applies any automatic adjustment, and any change can be undone by pressing dimmage Reset button. Dude, you are a life saver. Do note that this is likely a time-limited evaluation though: Locks the exposure for the preview image shown, allowing you to scan multiple images in the same film strip with the same exposure. Note that adding a subtractive color darkens the image, rather than lightening it as with the additive primary colors.

I don't know how much of an issue this streaking would be in any sort of normal usage, particularly given that it didn't appear in Train2, which is probably about as tough a piece of film as any average user would be likely to encounter.

The Minolta Dimage Scan Dual Mlnolta lets you save image correction settings as a "Job," so that you can apply the same settings to an entire group of images or any other image. Here's where you crop as well, or use auto-crop, which works quite well if you wish to use the entire frame of the picture.

Determines the quality of the index prescan. How satisfied are you with this response? Compared to my previous flatbed scans, the difference was obvious.

Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III - film scanner (35 mm) - desktop - USB 2.0

Condenser optics tend to produce more contrasty images, but at the cost eoftware greatly enhanced film grain, while diffusion enlargers create a softer look. Usually using Vuescan under Linux, but wanted to give the original software a try….

The black bar shows a measure of how good the focus currently is, while the white bar shows the highest level that's been reached since you opened the window.

If the scanner is set to sample 8 times in 16 bit mode, find something else to do for a few minutes. The PC I used to test the scanner was my venerable old MHz Pentium II machine, so you could expect greatly reduced processing times on more recent, faster computers. If you do things right, the noise level decreases in proportion to the square root of the number of samples you're averaging across.

Given the very low resolution of the index scans, there's really no need for focusing on each frame, and the time this takes is appreciable. From left to right, their functions are as follows:. Rotates the selected image 90 degrees clockwise. At a setting of "High," much more dust is removed, but tiny details in the images themselves could be lost. The scanner does a pretty good job in auto-focus mode, so I just let the unit do its thing. Did this solve your problem? Using this interface, even complete beginners can achieve pleasing results, since most everyone can at least tell whether they like one image more than another.

This arrangement did a pretty good job of handling curled or damaged film, but film curled along its length was tricky to deal with because it would curl up quite high above the "tray" provided for it to lie in, while I was attempting to lower and fasten the lid.

Performs the actual scan.

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I tend to play with the final product in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, instead of using the scanner software. When the "auto focus before scan" option is checked, the scanner does an autofocus operation before every frame of index scans too.

While it doesn't show in this screen shot, mousing over each of the buttons tells you what the pixel dimensions of the resulting scan will be. You only really need it for extremely dense pieces of film a good thing too, because it drastically slows the scanning processbut it does indeed make a difference for those "impossible" slides.

The utility is perfect when you have a batch of negatives or slides that require little or no adjustment, as it greatly speeds up the scanning process.

It's a Great Value! Performs a new prescan of just the zoomed area of the frame, giving you a larger dcan image to work with. The top pressure plate hooks into the bottom tray, then closes back down and latches, clamping the film flat.

The best out on the web for this situation.