![]() # The scanner will hang and have all kinds of trouble quite a lot. This is the right orientation to make sure the negatives are right side up with the thin swinging upwards. Also, when you put the film in, the door side swings up. If you put it in the wrong way, it goes in, but the scanner then hangs in Windows and you need to reboot to get it to work again. The carrier looks about the same, but it will only insert with the tapered end into the film reader. # Make sure you put the film in the right way. By the way, that is equivalent to using a 12 megapixel digital camera in terms of resolution. With some adjustment, I found that with Photoshop CS, a JPEG image quality of 70 usually leads to a 4-5MB file. I literally hung itunes when it tries to convert large JPEGs into Apple's proprietary format. # When you take a 200MB TIFF and turn it into a JPEG, there are many programs like iTunes that don't like 10MB JPEGs. Only for the really great landscape or high detail shots do I pump them to 5400 dpi. So for most ordinary photos taken with an instamatic camera (we have two excellent ones by the way, the Olympus Stylus and the Yashica T4Pro, the later with an incredibly sharp fixed focus lense) I scan them at a more manageable 2700dpi which leads to 50MB images. Not only is this gigantic on the disk, but Photoshop is unbearable slow even on an Athlon 64 overclocked to 2.2GHz. First, it produces only TIFF files and a 35mm is 200MBs per image. # There is a big temptation to just go to 5400 dpi and 48-bit color, load the Minolta Imagescan software just scan away. It just ain't that easy to get good scans. Still, using it has been much more complicated than you'd think. The other thing about it is that it has 48 bits of color depth, a dynamic range of 4.8 and has Digital ICE dust and scartch removal. Most film has about 4000 dpi and I've actually found that for most photos, 2700 dpi is just fine unless you are using a really good SLR. It had a resolution advantage then over the Nikon 4000 and since then the technology has plateaued. Two years ago, I bought the then brand new 5400. Shutterbug: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. ![]()
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