Minolta 5400 questions

[Bart van der Wolf]

SNIP

I'm quite capable of scaling this up to several
thousand responses per day, and even automating
these responses if necessary. A bully needs to be
confronted.

Warning: Dual traps ahead!

OK, let's see you do it "ulcer boy"! This is a challenge!

Bart

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[Don]

Bart didn't post this. Bart doesn't use supernews
to post messages. These are forged postings
from me.

I'm psychotic and not very intelligent, and I
lash out at everyone who despises me. The
problem is that everyone in this newsgroup
despises me. Maybe they've all decided to
gang up on me.

The problem with being a paranoid twit
is that sometimes everyone actually is
out to get me.

Don

 

[Don]

Bart didn't post this. Bart doesn't use supernews
to post messages. These are forged postings
from me.

I'm psychotic and not very intelligent, and I
lash out at everyone who despises me. The
problem is that everyone in this newsgroup
despises me. Maybe they've all decided to
gang up on me.

The problem with being a paranoid twit
is that sometimes everyone actually is
out to get me.

Don

 

[Don]

Bart didn't post this. Bart doesn't use supernews
to post messages. These are forged postings
from me.

I'm psychotic and not very intelligent, and I
lash out at everyone who despises me. The
problem is that everyone in this newsgroup
despises me. Maybe they've all decided to
gang up on me.

The problem with being a paranoid twit
is that sometimes everyone actually is
out to get me.

Don

 

[dseuser]

With my eyesight, I can adjust the sliders to get rid of clippings in
the histograms. But to rely on the histograms to arrive at a neutral
spot in an image or an unexposed frame is beyond my capability. Spot
checking is what I am doing but the sampler readings are changing too
drastically to make any sense.

I noticed that Silverfast's sampler work like Photoshop's. Perhaps I
should use it instead.

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

With my eyesight, I can adjust the sliders to get rid of clippings
in
the histograms. But to rely on the histograms to arrive at a neutral
spot in an image or an unexposed frame is beyond my capability.
Spot checking is what I am doing but the sampler readings are
changing too drastically to make any sense.

You could try and crop just the tiny part of the image you are testing
for neutrality, which will adjust the histogram for tweaking channel
gain. Just make sure the exposure time doesn't change much, which may
or may not work if you switch off auto exposure after an initial full
frame scan.

Bart

 

[Olaf Ulrich]

The slides are scanned with the Minolta Scan
Utility. In the preference, 16-bit linear is selected,
and Color Match disabled. No color corrections
are made during scanning. The image in the scan
window looks quite close to the slide, and there
are no channel clippings. I believe that this
produces a raw scan.

Yes, scans produced this way may be considered sort of 'raw scan.'

When the scan is opened in PS CS [...] The bottom
line is that it takes quite a bit of PS correction to match
the slide.

Maybe you want to check out the Photoshop plug-in 'Color Integrity'
from C F Systems (see www.c-f-systems.com). I'm having a good
experience using their 'NegPos' and 'ColorNeg' plug-ins for scanned
colour negatives.

-- Olaf