Hi all, A quick question for some of the more experienced members of the list - I recently got a Minolta DiMage Scan Dual III to go along with my Nikon N80, Tamron 19-35, 28-80, and 75-300 lenses, and an old N65 body for a spare (I'm saving up for my F100, eventually, lol)... My quandry is thus -- It seems like a really nice scanner, and most of the reviews I've seen of it have been great, as well as the reports from other people I know who have used it, however I can't seem to get anything even remotely bordering on halfway decent scans out of it. Either the color balance is way off, or the scans look too washed, or the contrast is horrific, but with all of the film I've scanned so far, I haven't gotten one decent looking scan. My intent when I got it was to scan in my entire assortment of negatives (easily 300+ rolls of color and another 200+ of B&W) and be able to get a good catalog of images online, as well as hopefully be able to do most of my future work with the digital negatives instead of the print ones, I'm a travel writer & photographer by profession so tend to do a lot of shooting, and a lot of going back looking for old stock type stuff, and piecing together images for stories and covers and guidebooks occasionally years after the initial story was written gets to be tedious when it entails digging through old boxes of negatives. Needless to say however, none of that will work if I can't get good scans in. Does anyone know of any good tutorials or beginning/intro type articles on getting good film scans in, especially with the DiMage Dual III? I'm not brand new to digital imaging and image processing (I've used photoshop for a few years now at a slightly-above basic level and have gotten into some fairly complicated retouching a few times), but a couple of the advanced pieces I've seen have been way beyond me. Thanks in advance for the help, and feel free to reply off-list if you'd prefer, Darren S. Dale Travel Writer & Photographer mrspock@insnet.com 407 W. Grant St., Ste J Macomb, IL 61455 Tel: (309) 837-2260 Fax: (928) 395-2548
