Don, you're certainly a good spokesperson "against" Vuescan.
That's *the* basic mistake some people constantly make.
I am not a spokesperson against Vuescan. I merely state the facts. The
same way I state NikonScan facts, for example. And yet nobody has ever
accused me of being a spokesperson against NikonScan!?
However,
as a user for the past several years, I've not found anything that
even comes close to it's ease of use (I guess I'm one of those who've
become accustomed to it's "awful" interface, and so don't understand
that is's really bad and hard to use) and quality of scans. But then,
I also haven't looked at anything else other than Nikon Scan that came
with a scanner.
More power to you!
As I keep repeating (!), but it gets overlooked because people make
unsubstantiated tangential assumption based on the initial
misapprehension:
If you're happy with Vuescan, to that I say: Great!!! Enjoy!!!
However, if someone would then try to translate this personal
*feeling* by stating that Vuescan has a good UI we enter the domain of
*fact*. And facts have nothing to do with any one person's feelings.
You (the generic "you" not you personally) may *subjectively feel*
good about Vuescan but that doesn't change the *objective fact* that
Vuescan is absolutely atrocious in every way.
So I'd like to ask what you'd recommend.
It depends on your requirements. Essentially, whatever you're happy
with. The choice is well known (and fairly limited) so it's really up
to each person to decide based on their needs and tolerances.
In my particular case, once I turned everything of in NikonScan (and
that's not easy!!!) it did what I wanted. Except, due to Kodachromes
and my twin-scanning, absolute exposure range was insufficient in this
mode. So I ended up writing my own software...
But I doubt many (if any?) people would consider that an option
because most people don't have the same requirements as I do.
Therefore, my personal choice is really irrelevant.
Also, I'd like to know if there are others out there who really
believe Vuescan is awful, and if so, what they are using.
Quality and fact are not a popularity contest!
Germans have a saying about this which, I believe, translates into
something like:
Excrement must taste good because 1 billion flies can't be wrong! ;o)
Don.