HELP!!! Vuescan and Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV not working?!?

[mrleonard]

Hello,
I have all my slides waiting to be scanned, and I want the best
quality. Vuescan doesnt work with my Dimage Dual IV scanner....makes a
beeping noise and the prescan image is just a bunch of noise. Are
there any other third party scan softwares you could suggest? The
minolta scan software has a few issues I do not like...for ex...you
can seem to only set oversampling in batch mode...I cant save to RAW
format...etc. Scanning can take quite a bit of time, and I would like
to get the optimum results before I get into this venture. Any
help,suggestions etc. would be VERY helpful!
Thx
Len

 

[Leonard Evens]

Hello,
I have all my slides waiting to be scanned, and I want the best
quality. Vuescan doesnt work with my Dimage Dual IV scanner....makes a
beeping noise and the prescan image is just a bunch of noise. Are
there any other third party scan softwares you could suggest? The
minolta scan software has a few issues I do not like...for ex...you
can seem to only set oversampling in batch mode...I cant save to RAW
format...etc. Scanning can take quite a bit of time, and I would like
to get the optimum results before I get into this venture. Any
help,suggestions etc. would be VERY helpful!
Thx
Len

Ed Hamrick claims Vuescan works with the Minolta Dual IV, and he is
almost invariably right about such things. You should examine his
documentation. He tells you how to produce an appropriate dump which
you can send to him so he can analyze the problem.

 

[Alex Stols]

Hello,
I have all my slides waiting to be scanned, and I want the best
quality. Vuescan doesnt work with my Dimage Dual IV scanner....makes
a
beeping noise and the prescan image is just a bunch of noise. Are
there any other third party scan softwares you could suggest? The
minolta scan software has a few issues I do not like...for ex...you
can seem to only set oversampling in batch mode...I cant save to RAW
format...etc. Scanning can take quite a bit of time, and I would like
to get the optimum results before I get into this venture. Any
help,suggestions etc. would be VERY helpful!
Thx

Hello Len,

There are three things that I can tell you from experience.

1 - The Minolta sw has the option to set the color depth in the
Preferences pane to 16 bit linear. To the best of my knowledge this
is the same as RAW. At least Vuescan reads and treats them as if they
were.

2 - I can set multisampling just fine - not just only in batch mode.
I haven't used it so far.

3 - If you cannot get a normal prescan with Vuescan you should try to
close Vuescan, delete the ini file, and start again setting up
Vuescan to your needs. For not easy to understand reasons Vuescan
sometimes wants this.

For the rest: I am waiting for Ed Hamrick to really make Vuescan
useful with the DS-IV. Up till now the color rendition is not
adequate: faint colored bands appear when I use it, and multisampling
results in scans having vividly colored bands all over the images.

At the moment I use the Minolta sw to scan color negatves to RAW and
I use Vuescan in a second step to produce JPG / TIF / index.BMP files
as needed. Also, I use Photoshop for tweaking the images in 16 bit
mode and for converting the RAW fles to the JPEG2000 format.

 

[Ed Hamrick]

Ed Hamrick claims Vuescan works with the Minolta Dual IV, and he is almost
invariably right about such things.

Not always <smile>. The auto focus wasn't working right, and
there are sometimes problems with 800 dpi scans. I've fixed the
auto focus problem in VueScan 8.0.13, and have disabled 800 dpi
in 8.0.13, so it should be better. I'll release this in the next
few hours.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick

 

[Shawn Engelland]

For the rest: I am waiting for Ed Hamrick to really make Vuescan

useful with the DS-IV. Up till now the color rendition is not
adequate: faint colored bands appear when I use it, and multisampling
results in scans having vividly colored bands all over the images.

Is the "vividly colored bands all over the images" a known problem when
multi-sampling with VueScan and the Scan Dual IV? I am new to film
scanning and was recently evaluating the VueScan (8.0.13) with my new
Scan Dual IV. I encountered this "vividly colored bands" behavior while
attempting to multi-sample a color negative, but I attributed the
problem to my ignorance of correct VueScan settings.
Shawn

 

[Alex Stols]

Is the "vividly colored bands all over the images" a known problem
when
multi-sampling with VueScan and the Scan Dual IV? I am new to film
scanning and was recently evaluating the VueScan (8.0.13) with my
new
Scan Dual IV. I encountered this "vividly colored bands" behavior
while
attempting to multi-sample a color negative, but I attributed the
problem to my ignorance of correct VueScan settings.
Shawn

Hello Shawn,

With version 8.0.13 the vividly colored bands have disappeared, but
the faint colored bands especially visible in underexposed areas are
still there. As is the inability to autofocus.
Any way, this is the situation here at my place.
Haven't tried 8.0.14 yet, but I expect no difference since nothing is
mentioned in the "What's new in version 8.0.14" about the SD4...

 

[Alex Stols]

Hello Shawn,

With version 8.0.13 the vividly colored bands have disappeared, but
the faint colored bands especially visible in underexposed areas are
still there. As is the inability to autofocus.
Any way, this is the situation here at my place.
Haven't tried 8.0.14 yet, but I expect no difference since nothing
is
mentioned in the "What's new in version 8.0.14" about the SD4...

Follow-up: 8.0.14 is no better. Still colored banding and the
autofocus is still not working properly. In any case: in 6 tries the
autofocus settled for values less than -0.3 or greater than +0.3.

 

[Shawn Engelland]

Follow-up: 8.0.14 is no better. Still colored banding and the
autofocus is still not working properly. In any case: in 6 tries the
autofocus settled for values less than -0.3 or greater than +0.3.

Alex,
Thanks for the info. I'm obviously new to VueScan, but it appears to me
that Ed Hamrick is very much on top of things. Is it safe to assume
that the outstanding SD4 issues are in his queue? Have you had any
correspondence with him about these problems?
Shawn

 

[Markus Plail]

Thanks for the info. I'm obviously new to VueScan, but it appears to
me that Ed Hamrick is very much on top of things. Is it safe to
assume that the outstanding SD4 issues are in his queue? Have you had
any correspondence with him about these problems?

IIRC he said it is moving towards the top of his ToDo list. Should be
quite at the top by now.

regards
Markus

 

[Hecate]

IIRC he said it is moving towards the top of his ToDo list. Should be
quite at the top by now.

And it's only taken 12 months or so...

 

[Alex Stols]

Alex,
Thanks for the info. I'm obviously new to VueScan, but it appears
to me
that Ed Hamrick is very much on top of things. Is it safe to assume
that the outstanding SD4 issues are in his queue? Have you had any
correspondence with him about these problems?

Hello Shawn,
Yes I did. I must say however that notwithstanding Ed saying in :
version 8.0.6 - * Added support for multi-sampling on Scan Dual IV
and in :
version 8.0.13 - * Fixed problem with focus on Minolta Scan Dual IV,
the multi-sampling has been right only since version 13, while
focussing is still not right.

I also reported 'unofficially' the faint color streaking I still see,
but Ed hasn't indicated he sees this as a problem. Yesterday I
specifically tried to look for this effect using the Minolta
software, but there is no trace of it to be found. For these reasons
I continue to use the Minolta software to scan my color negatives...

For B&W negatives I found VS very nice to work with, although I had
to use manual focussing.