Vuescan and Minolta 5400 mechanical noise

[colin_ackerman]

My Minolta 5400 scanner has developed an apparent mechanical
malfunction. It seems that at the beginning of the actual scanning
process of each frame, the film carrier moves a bit , the scanner makes
a strange noise while attempting to move the carrier, but the carrier
remains stationary and as a result the scanned image is streaky beyond
all recognition.
I tried to switch to the Minolta scanning software and it worked just
fine!

I did some research on the web and found the following comment on a
forum:-

"I've done a little research and found that Vuescan and Minolta
software differently changed speed of a stepper motor advancing the
film carrier. Vuescan started slowly at the beginning of the frame and
then changed the scanning speed to higher abruptly. That was a moment
where the step motor jammed. I found this when I opened the casing to
see what was going on inside. It may be an electro-mechanical problem
with the step motor. It just could not carry out complex speed change
VueScan instructed it to do. I am not blaming VueScan but Minolta
software works with no such problems for me."

I sent a brief e-mail to Ed Hamrick just to establish if he knew
anything about this problem. I really just wanted to know if he thought
this was a mechanical problem or if it could possibly be a Vuescan
software issue but I did not get a response. Has anyone else
experienced similar problems with Vuescan and the Minolta 5400?

I really like the control that Vuescan gives me but this problem (which
all the signs indicate is a Vuescan problem) is getting on my nerves to
such an extent that I have abandoned using Vuescan altogether!

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

SNIP

Has anyone else experienced similar problems with Vuescan
and the Minolta 5400?

Which VueScan version?

Bart

 

[Maris V. Lidaka Sr.]

I have not, at least through v.8.2.37

Maris

 

[pawelb]

I really like the control that Vuescan gives me but this problem (which
all the signs indicate is a Vuescan problem) is getting on my nerves to
such an extent that I have abandoned using Vuescan altogether!

I have not, scanned over 11.000 frames using all versions of Vuescan
from 7.6.82 to 8.3.11 (Minolta DSE 5400 version 1).

Pawel

 

[Theo]

Hi,

I got similar problems, but not with every scan, just once and a while.

 

[HvdV]

Hi,

I got similar problems, but not with every scan, just once and a while.

Here too, with Silverfast software. Occasionally the carrier doesn't move to
the next slide but starts rattling. A little push gets it going.
-- hans