The manual is also available for separate download at Silverfast's website
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud" <bud@alltrader.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT
| The Silverfast manual can be accessed from the preview window of
Silverfast
| then click on the 'question mark.' The manual is a pdf file and is quite
| comprehensive.
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>
| To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
| Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:15 AM
| Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT
|
|
| > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:35:35 EDT (RogerMillerPhoto@aol.com) wrote:
| >
| > > However, now I'm trying
| > > to figure out how the undocumented Insight and poorly documented
| > > Silverfast software works. No one on the list offered to help me
| > > figure it out following my last post.
| >
| > Insight should have a help file, and certainly did, though I don't know
if
| > that has gone AWOL with later versions supplied on CD.
| >
| > Silverfast is pretty hard, and I wouldn't try and engage with that
unless
| > and until you know your way round scanning. Even then, it's far from
| > intuitive as it goes way beyond basic scanning functions.
| >
| > However the real problem with most scanner s/w is that you get no
| > education about which adjustments to use for which faults, or even how
to
| > identify them correctly. I have some sympathy with this : you wouldn't
| > expect a car handbook to tell you how the clutch works and when to use
it.
| >
| > It's no help right now, but I am working on addressing this as part of
| > website Mk2.
| >
| > My credibility WRT that must be <0 by now, as it has taken so long. But
| > the end of the major diversion - evolution of an equitable subscription
| > scheme*** quite unlike anything else on the net - which has delayed it,
is
| > now in sight.
| >
| > > Maybe I need to buy Vuscan.
| > > (LOL, as they say!)
| >
| > You don't *need* to, and there's a good case for getting to grips with 8
| > bit scanning using Insight first as its controls are more intuitive. To
| > get the best out of VS often requires a different approach, scanning to
| > 16bit and carrying out some corrections within PS. Ultimately it is
worth
| > it, especially with negs, but it may temporarily increase vertigo for
| > people who are clinging on to the steep and rocky learning curve by
their
| > fingernails. Take small steps, breathe deeply, rest often, don't look
down
| > :)
| >
| > <OT>
| > *** I will post a separate msg about this soon, as we need beta testers.
| > </OT>
| >
| > Regards
| >
| > Tony Sleep
| > - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner
| > info & comparisons
| >
| >
|
