Microtek 120tf: Interesting discovery...!

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Microtek 120tf: Interesting discovery...!

Postby Nitrofunk » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:39 pm

Hi!

While doing some researching about the "Softbanding-Problem" on the Microtek 120tf and the Polaroid Sprintscan 120, I discovered that when turning off the "Autofocos"-Feature and using the MF-Glassholder, Negatives came out considerably SHARPER than those with the feature turned on.
Give it a try! You'll be surprised!
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Postby LSI_Belli » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:35 pm

Dear Nitro,

thanks for your interest in SilverFast and for your proposal. As I already wrote it in another posting concerning the "soft banding" problem, we will investigate this issue again.

I just have a few complementary questions: do you observe that the sharpness gets increased only with the following configuration: auto-focus switched off, negative mode, glass holder? Or is it true according to you for other configurations? This proposal (autofocus off) does not affect the "soft banding" problem, does it?

Best,

Thomas

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Postby Nitrofunk » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:41 pm

I haven't the scanner near me right now, so I can't check all your questions at the moment. All I can say is that I scan my B&W-Negs as Positives - with the AF turned off. But I don't know if turning off the AF will affect the Banding-problem. I'll check that later!

Best wishes,
Nitro

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Postby LSI_Noack » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:05 am

Dear Nitro

your observation unfortunately cannot be back by our testers (tried with different systems). Can it be your scanner's auto-focus has become defective?

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Sonny Noack
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