brian_bryce1

Thank you everyone. Sam excellent points. Looking at the spec you are correct the motor add much of the weight back. Looks like I will probably stay with my current gear. Saves money on batteries if nothing else...

My real questions are two. One what would a gain/loose by switching to

a modern system, and does it make sence to do so? Two what system and

what parts?

 

My current "system" is an A-1, 50mm 1.8, 35-70mm 3.5-4.5, 28mm 2.8,. I

can't really say that there has been anything wrong with old equipment

as I like to set most everything manually anyway. I shoot mostly

slides of landscapes and other outdoor stuff. I find that I use my

28mm the most and my zoom second (I never carry more than two of the

three lenses, although I ocationally use my father's 115mm).

 

What I see myself gaining by moveing to a newer system is mostly the

lose of weight and perhaps some better mettering (oh yes and some lens

in a system that can be used later with a dslr). What I fear loosing

is affordable quality lenses. I simply do not know how a current 50

1.8 from canon lets say would fair against my FD. If I were to get

some new equipment I think I would get a Elan 7 or Rebel Ti, with a 50

1.8 at first then maybe later get a 28-105 3.5-4.5.

 

Still if there is anyone who has made such a swtich I would like to

hear your thoughts on the matter.

Jim,

Here is some stuff that may help:

It does work under Vuescan, but I had several times when vuescan would freeze. On the other hand I have had no problems whatsoever with the minolta software, installing or otherwise.

 

VIA usb controllers are extremely temperamental in the older revisions (I do not know about the new ones) but my VIA133A south bridge had several timing issues, and would "lock" many devices (Canon scanner and an epson printer) as the data stream was interrupted. If you have another computer altogether or a friend�s I would suggest trying it on that. If that seems to fix it you may wish or get an independent USB controller on a PCI card. My Adaptec card has had no issues as of yet. (PS turn off the on board USB controllers in the BIOS if you get an add in card).

Noticed a green color cast assocated with the sRGB and adobeRGB color spaces, so I have rescanned the first picture without the color correction on, it is more brown now, probably more like it acutally was. I don't think it would be noticable on the flower so I haven't redone it.

Here is another(one of my father's pictures), no adjustments except for color space<BR><BR>

here is 100% crop:

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<IMG src="http://glue.umd.edu/~bryceb/flower100.jpg">

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here is a crop at 25% with a USM:

<IMG src="http://glue.umd.edu/~bryceb/flowercrop.jpg">

Well I finally got one for and have done some tinkering. Here is a 100% crop:

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<img src="http://glue.umd.edu/~bryceb/100percent.jpg">

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all that has been done is the dust brush, a histogram adjustment (I just set it so that the range was from black to white by sliding the end points), and the use of AdobeRGB. Also of note is the picture was taken with the focus at infinity. So perhaps this isn't the best sample blow up. Hopfully I will be able to pos something more soon.

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I also have a 50% reduced copy and sharpened of the full scan <a href="http://glue.umd.edu/~bryceb/lookouthills.jpg">here</a>.

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I hope to put up a detailed overview of the scanner sometime soon as there aren't really good reviews with samples.

I assume that just mean that it is the theoretical DMax based on the CCD, the resolving power of the lens, etc. Instead of them measureing it directly by some physical test.

Anyone else, any samples from this exact scanner, is the software still the same, etc?

I am interested to hear from people who own or have used this scanner,

what they think of it. Also I am interested in seeing some scans,

perferably some at 100% (cropped I guess). I have read the stuff at

imaging-resource and steves but wish to know more.