Vuescan - Minolta 5400 issue

[Robert Feinman]

The issue with IR cleaning with Vuescan and the Minolta 5400
seems to have been fixed in the latest version (.28).

 

[Roger S.]

Anyone have news about whether the FS4000US is working right or not?

 

[Mendel Leisk]

The issue with IR cleaning with Vuescan and the Minolta 5400
seems to have been fixed in the latest version (.28).

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Robert, what "cleaning issue", recent, or chronic? I ask cause I've not
been happy with Vuescan's cleaning, compared to ICE, since purchase of
my 5400, around December, 2004. Is it something that was recently
broke, and then fixed? Or a signif. improvement in cleaning, compared
to the longer term norm?

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

SNIP

Robert, what "cleaning issue", recent, or chronic? I ask cause I've
not
been happy with Vuescan's cleaning, compared to ICE, since purchase
of
my 5400, around December, 2004.

As Ed Hamrick was trying to improve the IR cleaning quality,
apparently something prevented the IR cleaning functionality on the
5400 alltogether.

Is it something that was recently broke, and then fixed?
Yes.

Or a signif. improvement in cleaning, compared to the longer
term norm?

On my 5400 scans, it's better than it ever was.
On my Nikon scans, it has been good for many years.

Bart

 

[Don]

As Ed Hamrick was trying to improve the IR cleaning quality,
apparently something prevented the IR cleaning functionality on the
5400 alltogether.

That "something" is the Vuescan author's legendary incompetence.

ICE on 5400 works just fine.

Don.

 

[shootstraight]

The issue with IR cleaning with Vuescan and the Minolta 5400
seems to have been fixed in the latest version (.28).

"seems to have been fixed"?

Does that mean whatever being "fixed" is not obvious, or you "seem" to
be losing your confidence in Ed?

 

[Robert Feinman]

"seems to have been fixed"?

Does that mean whatever being "fixed" is not obvious, or you "seem" to
be losing your confidence in Ed?

"seems" is just because I haven't done more than one or two scans so
I couldn't say for sure. Perhaps problems might show up with a different
set of options selected. However, under the settings that I used
previously the problem is gone.
As to how good the cleaning is compared to ICE, I can't say. Most of
the 35mm I scan has only a few dust spots so the cleaning task in minor.

 

[Roger S.]

IR cleaning on the FS4000US works quite well for slides in 8.3.30 (no
artifacts and very effective cleaning). I haven't tested negs yet.
There's still a cropping bug with the slide holder, but scanning at
"maximum" is a workaround.

 

[Djon]

I've closely compared Vuescan's infared with Ice4 on Nikon V making
12X18 prints ...both remove literally all dust from E6, E4, C41,
neither softens grain or image at any but the "heavy" setting, which
seems never to be useful..the lightest setting is always sufficient.

Vuescan's front end makes more intuitive sense than does Nikonscan's
more attractive front end. My only beef with Vuescan is its method of
aligning frames in SA21: Nikonscan's method is usually perfect,
Vuescan's requires constant re-adjustment.

Neither Vuescan nor Nikonscan have any cropping issues with V.