Re: [Leica] Experience with the Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II?

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

John-
Aaaah! At last, a smiley post! I have the Dimage Scan Dual (uno) with a SCSI
interface, and I love it! It can be real slow, but for a cheap scanner, I
can find little to complain about!
VUESCAN works on it, and if I want a really good scan, I do three or four
passes and find that the results are better than even my Epson 1200 can
reproduce fully!
It has turned me into a believer that digital in one form or another will
eventually prevail- I mean if I didn't really believe that, I'd still have a
buggy whip in the corner by the door of the stable....
In fact, more to the point, I'd still be using wet plates and have a
portable darkroom a la Mathew Brady tucked in the back of the old station
wagon!
I would imagine that when the Leica first came out that there were thoses
who poopooed the idea of a miniature negative ever approaching any sort of
popularity whenyou could get suchwonderful results with your Burke & James
5x7!
I am sure that Leica will continue to ride the wave. Even the pedestrian
Digilux is a decent entry into that genre- I do some shots for rBay (ok! I
hear somebody gagging out there!) and have had several comments and
questions about what camera I'm using to get such good photos- I am sure
that it is not my penultimate skill at tabletop photography, and can only
credit Leica and the Digilux. So, if we give them the same scale of time
that it took from the Ur Leica to the IIIf RD,(what- 20-25 years?) Then I am
sure the eventual result will be a digital capability that if we saw it
today would blow our socks off.
We're in a new century, new technology, and to disparage or discount what
will be is a little premature- I personally hope I can stick around long
enough to see what happens!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Experience with the Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II?


> No complaints yet, just smiles. I have had it about three weeks but am in
> the middle of organising a renovation of our new house. I have only run
> about eight rolls though it so far. I am on a steep learning curve getting
> things like manual exposure to work the way I want it to. It is small,
works
> right out of the box and with great support from Minolta Canada (had to
> reinitialise it once). The scanner has this endearing habit of losing its
> place occasionally; you can almost hear the machine say, "Oh S**t", while
it
> backs up to its reference point. So far I am only scanning Tri-X so there
> are no great demands on its performance but I will run a couple of slides
> through soon and let you know. I find the digital scanning to be much
easier
> than the darkroom and my little tyke can wander in and out as he pleases.
My
> only disappointment is that VueScan will not be updated to work with USB
> devices on the Mac. Darn, VueScan would have allowed multiple scans to
> increase the D-max. Having said that, the Photoshop plug-in software works
> well and I have never had to bang my, or its, head against the wall.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Collier
>
> > From: Rick Floyd <rick-floyd@mediaone.net>
> >
> > Did you get this yet?  How about any feedback from others?  It sure
seems
> > like a good low cost alternative.
> >
>
>