Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't really know, nor am I sure if this helps you at all, but I've swapped an arm and a leg for the Scan Multi Pro, which amongst it's other attributes does a similar trick. The normal optical resolution for bigger than 35mm is 3200 samples per inch, but it has a similarly tricky interpolation mode for 4800 spi. I have to be honest and say that for my requirements (up to A3+) the optical resolution is good enough - I've only used the 4800 mode on one 645 tranny on which I wanted to print the central portion to that size. Was it better? I don't know. Did it work? Yup. Unscientifically yours, Nick - --- Randy Jensen <randy@jamzcheer.com> 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html