Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the multi II is the same as the original multi, the difference is in the software installed on the mac or PC. for my purposes, which is to scan for the web, its resolution is perfectly adequate. i use it with vuescan on linux. - -rei On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:49:44AM -0800, Randy Jensen wrote: > I need to get a film scanner that will also do medium format (645) > negatives. If I don't want to spend almost $3000 (I don't), the only option > seems to be this scanner. I can get one for about $500 reconditioned. > > The problem is I can't find any real reviews on this model on the web. The > specs and downloadable manual from Minolta's website make it seem almost > perfect for what I want to do (which is make small to reasonably large > prints - like 16x20 maybe). > > Does anyone own this scanner? Apparently the original Scan Multi only > scanned medium format at very low resolution (barely over 1100dpi), and the > same is true of the model II, except that it will interpolate to 2880 dpi. > It also says that it adjusts it's "scanning pitch" to do this, which makes > me think it's not ONLY a software difference, but something is actually > happening during the scan to make this interpolation better than Photoshop > could do by itself. Does anyone know if this is the case? > > Thanks in advance!!! > > Randy - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html