scanning options for slide archival...

[degrub]

Actually Don, Silverfast lets you "manual everything" as well as auto by
use of their "expert" settings

regards,

 

[Randy Howard]

degrub wrote

Actually Don, Silverfast lets you "manual everything" as well as auto by
use of their "expert" settings

regards,

Well, I tried it out today. The stand-alone version of it wants
to load Classic (ugh), so I blew it off.

The photoshop plugin version doesn't even recognize the scanner,
so it doesn't let me do anything, plus it doesn't support FARE
either. Given its pricing, I expected a bit more.

 

[Don]

The claim of great support someone mentioned earlier isn't so
true. I sent in a simple question and got zero response from
the developer. But again, it's better than what I have now...

Oh, the author is hopeless. He has a very short fuse and is quite
arrogant. The only person to actually swear in this newsgroup since I
joined a couple of years ago, not that I'm easily offended. He finally
left because he couldn't take the criticism from angry Minolta users.
He couldn't fix a VusScan bug on the Minolta 5400 for over two years.

No, I was referring to users here. There are a few who persists in
fighting the VueScan bugs and even though some don't even use it
anymore because of those bugs, they still try to help out.

Yes, but what I'm talking about it just the default settings on
a supposedly 'raw' scan. Plus, the preview image looks normal
with the Canon software, but 15-20 minutes later, you get a tiff
file with a nasty blue color cast that wasn't there in the
preview. Don't have that problem with vuescan.

Yes, but that's not a raw scan. It's heavily edited depending on the
setting (landscape, flash, etc.). You can usually get very similar
results in manufacturer's software by clicking on "Auto" in Curves
which, again, is similar to what PS "Auto" does (in Levels or Curves).

That's just it. I don't see that happening. ScanGear is doing
something (funny) to the data on only some of the scans. Others
come out ok.

Yes, that seems to be the basic problem with ScanGear apparently. As I
say, I have no first hand experience but have seen others complaining.

According to their site, they don't support FARE on my scanner,
but that may not be a big deal. Anyway, it's downloading the
demo version now... thanks for the link.

You're welcome.

Don.

 

[Don]

I didn't say Silverfast doesn't. Just that it does even more things
automatically and does them (far) better than VueScan.

But, then again, that's not much a challenge... ;o)

Don.

 

[Don]

degrub wrote


Well, I tried it out today. The stand-alone version of it wants
to load Classic (ugh), so I blew it off.

The photoshop plugin version doesn't even recognize the scanner,
so it doesn't let me do anything, plus it doesn't support FARE
either. Given its pricing, I expected a bit more.

I too was also put off but the "obstacle course" trying to find the
correct version for the scanner. :-(

Don.

 

[Don]

Are you sure about that?

No, I'm not! I may be confusing it with something else. I do remember
reading about a system to fix dust and scratches which did what I
mention above i.e. scan at an angle.

I just did a cursory search of my message base but couldn't find
anything on FARE.

It was my understanding that FARE
works via infrared as well. In fact, you can see it come in as
one of the passes when noise reduction is turned on and you are
using VueScan.

As I say I would not trust VueScan with anything. But in theory it
could be doing that "angle scan". But as I say I really don't know
enough about FARE.

I found this description, which may mean that earlier versions
of FARE did not, but supposedly FARE "level 3" does, which is in
the 9950F:

.... quote omitted ...

OK, that's it then! It does use IR!

Maybe I was remembering one of the older versions? Oh, wait a minute!
I was thinking about flatbeds and removing scratches from photos.
Anyway...

Nothing is ever cheap in this business.

How does that British saying go:

I'm too poor to buy cheap things! ;o)

Don.

 

[Randy Howard]

Don wrote

I too was also put off but the "obstacle course" trying to find the
correct version for the scanner. :-(

According to their website, I did download the right version.
It simply doesn't work.

 

[Don]

According to their website, I did download the right version.
It simply doesn't work.

Oh, I see. That's even worse! I guess even they've lost track of all
the different versions... :-/

Don.