Focus controls

[drm]

Hi,

I've recently started using Silverfast AI for Minolta Scan Multi Pro on mac OS X. I'm very pleased with it, it gets more out of the scanner than the Minolta software or v**s**n.

One issue bugs me though: the focus options are not so easy to understand and do not appear to be documented anywhere. What I'm looking for is the ability to simply set the AF point manually (not the focus, just the focus point). In "P" mode I get a hunch that this is effectively what I do if I leave the offset at 0.0. True ?

Regards

David Mantripp

[LSI_Rossee]

Dear Drm.

Thanks for your interest in our SilverFast Software.

In the standard position, the focus button is grey. The auto-focus is
turned off.
The focus button shows only a black symbol of a stylized camera
lens. The mouse arrow changes to a pen with which the edge point
can be set.

The focus button depicts a black symbol together with the letter
?P?. The focus value is displayed in millimeters in an additional icon
below
First, set a sufficiently high output resolution for the current frame.
Click first on the focus button. Move the mouse across the picture
until the mouse pointer changes to a pen symbol.
Next, click on the point in the picture where you want to set the
focus. The point will be marked with a cross symbol.
The ?focus preview? dialog appears and, in the before-and-after
window, a preview is produced with the entered resolution. A new
scan will automatically begin.

Kind regards.