Jon,
I believe the RAW file facility is only in the Pro version, the demo may
be the Standard...
Although I use VS with a Minolta 5400 II can't help with the colour
balance question, the standard set up is usually good enough :-)
Regards - Martyn
Jon Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Slipping out of lurk mode. Things are busy these days so I only post
> the occasional response to the list, then go back to lurking quietly !
>
> Anyway, I recently bought a Minolta Scan Elite 5400 2nd hand - and very
> good it is too. I was hoping it would make scanning less of the
> complete and utter nightmare that I have previously found it to be with
> my Epson flatbed scanner. So far, it seems to be heading in the right
> direction. However, I have a few questions. Well, more of one big
> question really.
>
> My plan is to batch-scan all my negs / slides at screen-resolution.
> This is to enable me to basically catalogue and see them on-screen.
> Then I will spend the time doing "proper" hi-res scans of the shots I
> really want to do something with. Same goes for the couple-of-thousand
> family slides I have just inherited that my parents would like to view
> on their PC / TV.
>
> I guess what I am looking for is the ability to get the scan as close as
> possible to the desired result on first pass. My reasons for this are
> two-fold - first, less work for me, and second, less manipulation in
> photoshop should mean less degradation of image quality. I tried the
> Minolta software and, whilst it is better than the Epson software, it
> still isn't quite "there" for me. What I am looking for is something
> like the function in Photoshop which, when I open a DNG file, allows me
> to adjust the white balance by selecting something white and/or black in
> the image, then tweaking it slightly if required.
>
> So I downloaded the VueScan demo from the hamrick site. This seems to
> be even closer to what I am after. However, I couldn't see a way to
> select which area of the photo should be called "white" or "black" as a
> reference, as I can in photoshop. Found the manual setting, but what do
> I do to select the area I want to be white or black ? Then I noticed in
> the help file that you can save the raw ccd data - however I can't seem
> to find the option in the downloaded version. Is this disabled in the
> demo ? I thought the only restriction was the "$" all over the image
> when saved ? And the other question is, I suppose, if I save the raw
> ccd data does this then negate the need to do my initial processing
> stage in the vuescan software ? ie: Does the raw file data come from
> before this stage of processing ? At the moment I am thinking that the
> raw file is the way to go as I can then treat it exactly as I do the
> files from my e330. Any comments on this way of thinking ?
>
> That's enough for now. I'm sure I'll have more questions once I get
> some responses, and once I've had more of a play with VueScan. I'll
> email Ed Hamrick as well, but I'd appreciate your collective thoughts
> first.
>
> Oh, and OM content - once I am happy with the scanner I'll scan my
> OM-Odyssey images !
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
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