User manual MINOLTA X-7A

[. . . ] INDEX SCAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 INDEX TAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 MAKING AN INDEX SCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 RESIZING THE UTILITY WINDOW . . . . . . . . . 38 SELECTING INDEX THUMBNAILS . . . . . . . . . 38 ROTATING OR FLIPPING THE INDEX FRAMES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 FIT-TO-WINDOW BUTTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 REVERSING THE FRAME ORDER. . . . . . . . . 40 SAVING THE INDEX THUMBNAILS . . . . . . . . 40 SAVING AN INDEX FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 LOADING AN INDEX FILE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 EASY SCAN UTILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1. LAUNCHING THE EASY SCAN UTILITY 22 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2. LOADING THE FILM HOLDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Loading the 35mm film holder ­ FH-U1 . . . 23 Loading the slide mount holder ­ SH-U1 . 24 Loading the APS adaptor AD-10 (sold separately) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3. INSERTING THE FILM HOLDER. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Inserting the film holder FH-U1 or SH-U1 25 Inserting the APS Adaptor AD-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4. [. . . ] The point AF and manual focus functions cannot focus on a smooth, flat image area such as a cloudless or overcast sky. 1 Click the point-AF button . · The mouse pointer will change to the point-AF icon. · Click the point-AF button again to cancel the function. 2 Click on the area of image to be used for focus. · Autofocus will begin. The newly focused prescan will be displayed. 49 STANDARD SCAN UTILITY MANUAL FOCUS The scanner can be focused manually using the focus meter. 1 Click the manual-focus button . · The mouse pointer will change to the manualfocus icon. · To cancel the function, click the manual-focus button again. 2 Click on the area of the image to be used for focus. · The focus meter window will appear. 3 Adjust the slider using the mouse until the black and white bars are at their longest extension for sharpest focus. · The black bar indicates the change in focus. The white bar indicates the longest extent of the black bar and the point of sharpest focus. 4 Click "OK" to set the focus. · A new prescan will start and replace the previous image. 50 CROPPING APS IMAGES When APS film format is selected, the CHP button is displayed in the prescan window. Clicking the CHP button cycles the cropping frame through the "C, " "H, " and "P" APS framing formats. When using the image-correction tools, only the cropped area is displayed. Click the CHP button until the desired frame is displayed. · The cropping area can be adjusted or moved using the mouse. To move the frame, place the mouse pointer within the framed area and then click and drag. To adjust the frame, place the mouse pointer on the edge of the frame and then click and drag. To extend the frame over the entire image, press control+A (Windows) or command+A (Macintosh). H P C OTHER DISPLAYS IN THE PRESCAN WINDOW FRAME NUMBER The display above the prescan image shows the frame number of the displayed prescan followed by the total number of frames scanned. Clicking the right arrow displays the next frame, and clicking the left arrow displays the previous frame. The CMYK colour model is a subtractive process that uses the secondary colours: cyan, magenta, and yellow. A subtractive colour system recreates colour with pigments and dyes to absorb unwanted colour. If all three colours are mixed, black is produced. CMYK systems are used in photography and printing. Unlike photographic systems, printing technology also requires black (K). Because of the imperfections of printing inks, cyan, magenta, and yellow cannot produce a true black when mixed. Printers use a four-colour CMYK process to reproduce images. Complementary colour In photography, red, green, and blue are the primary colours. The secondary colours, cyan, magenta, and yellow, are made from G Y combining the primary colours: cyan = blue + green, magenta = blue + red, and yellow = red + green. The primary and secondary colours are grouped in complementary pairs: red and cyan, green C R and magenta, and blue and yellow. Knowing the complementary colours is very important in colour balancing: the method of adjusting the colour of the image to look B M natural. If the image has a specific colour cast, either subtracting the colour or adding its complementary colour will create a natural looking image. [. . . ] Click "OK" to continue. When starting up the utility software, Error=42 ­ close-scanner-door message appears. Close the scanner door. Click "OK" to continue. · The utility software freezes. · The scanning time increases. Turn off the scanner. Shut down Photoshop and increase its memory allocation. [. . . ]