RE: Nikon Acknowleges Banding, Sort Of

["gary" <gsellani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you look around the rest of the image, more than just the banding was
improved. Look at the definition of the shadows on the floor or table where
the plant rests. There is a shadow near the point where the plant container
goes from a straight walled (cylinder) to a V-shape that is lost on the
normal scan and present on the superfine.

There still seems to be a blur around the flowers in superfine. Is that due
to lens flare or the animal shaking the plant? Superfine removes the
horizontal bands, but I see vertical bands on the superfine to the left of
the lower flower. Not bands as much as a ghost of the flower edge.



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> From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
> rafe.bustin@verizon.net
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:08 PM
> To: scan@leben.com
> Subject: Nikon Acknowleges Banding, Sort Of
>
>
> I had a prowl around the two Nikon tech-support sites
> (hoping to find some juicy driver or firmware updates)
> and found an interesting item on the Nikon Euro site.
> Specifically:
>
> <http://www.nikon-euro.com/nikoneuro_en/faq/scan/use/en/FAQ_scan_e
> n_c32.htm>
>
> It's in the  FAQs section, "Using the Scanner," Question 32:
> "What is the "Super Fine Scan" Mode on my LS-8000?
>
> In the answer to that question, there are two images, one showing
> the banding and one showing the banding removed by the
> use of "Super Fine Scan."
>
> As I've reported before, the banding - when it occurs - is extremely
> regular and periodic, and perpendicular to the scan motion.
>
> The writeup claims that the "fix" is needed only in very
> special circumstances.  Let's be generous and call that a half-truth.
> It is a rare occurrence, but I fail to see a correlation with image
> quality (as the writeup suggests.)
>
>
> rafe b.
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