This it what I think as well Mr Peter and the reason is because the picture looks just fantastic as great as if not better colour wise that the same image scanned with ICG drum scanner I have got. So, what it could be?? dust on the lens or on sensor? Placing maybe the film directly on the screen bed? Scanning at highest resolution?
tell me what you think out of experience you gathered with this beast.
Thank you
GIGi
I doubt very much that it is dust. Dust is not that colorful, and it makes blobs and not defined lines like that. Do you see at at other resolutions? It could also be a computer/connection issue, where the system runs out of bandwidth for a moment. What type of computer are you using, and with what sort of ram? Are you using a SCSI-2 connection, or a scsi-firewire? Do you get the same issues when scanning on a different part of the bed?
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Sorry late to the thread. I think you are on the right path Peter.
I always suggest running no other programs in the background other than what is necessary, and memory load the computer, it's cheap and avoids many issues.
Bob
Ok guys these are the specs:
Mac powerpc G4 speed 733mhz
Partition with 2 Hard drives : 1 harddrive mac os10.0.2 / 2 harddrive mac os9.9.2
Color genius v102 and color server run on OS9
Ram 1.25 tree slots of 256mb 512mb 521mb
card type: scsi card adapec 2930u card rom 4.0b4(wrapped)
scasi cable long 2 meter long! May be the case to use 1 meter?
Let me know and thank you again
Gigi
sorry yes i have the same issue when I tried on different positions. Scanned at 200dpi and 3130dpi.
Well, that's a faster mac than I have, although I have a bit more ram, but I doubt that your issues are being cause by lack of ram. (If you had 256mb, though, that'd be a different story.) My SCSI cable is about half as long as yours, but again it seems unlikely that it's the culprit. If you have another cable handy, then by all means give it a try.
Have you updated the firmware and CG version to the latest available? How about the driver for the scsi card?
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
the last available is it cg 1.0.3? the driver for the scsi it has been installed. I ll try with 1 meter cable. could it be the scanner itself?
could I try working with the mac os panther? At moment cg is running on mac os9.
gigi
I'll admit I'm reaching, but I see issues like this when ram is exausted and the machine temporarily hits the hd. For virtual memory. Are you scanning at 16 bit rgb at a high scan sample rate. If another program in the background is also consuming memory, I get odd effects in the scan. I have 4 gb in this old girl and no issues have shown up since loading her up.
As I say I'm reaching.
Bob
Color Genius 1.x.x won't work with os 10. You would need version 2.x.x.
Does the G4 have 4 memory slots? I might have some spare memory. OS 9 will see a max of 1.5 gig, whereas OS 10 might see up to 2 gig. (I'm sorry I'm not sure. I'm not really a 'Mac' guy.)
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Just checked. The Mac connected to the scanner has 2 GB not 4. Brain fade I guess.
Bob
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