Paul
If you know what you are doing when you are scanning a negative or positive
film Silverfast is IMO superior to all other scanner software on the
market today..No other software have all the
features and parameters as Silverfast have (general color handling,
specific color handling, white, gray ,and black point. curves , histogram
and much much more. I can measure up the film in Silverfast and get
scanning results who are much better in all aspects than a calculating
software. It all depends on your own skills when you are working with
Silverfast. VueScan is a excellent software but Silverfast is a scanning
tool.
If someone really will learn how to scan a film my suggestion is use
Silverfast and VueScan
For easy scan-VueScan. For complex scan-Silverfast.
Its takes many many hours of training to be a good scanner operator but it
worth it. Its like in the darkroom- the pleasure of knowing what Im doing.
Mikael Risedal
Photoghrapher
Lund Sweden
>From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
>Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>To: "'filmscanners@halftone.co.uk'" <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
>Subject: RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
>Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:56:38 -0700
>
>Silverfast is at - the price is $307 USD
>Vuscan is a - the price is $40 which includes
>Vueprint as well.
>
>I've been using Vuescan for a over a year now. I bought Silverfast 5 for
>my Polaroid SS4000 (before it was bundled) and consider it to be the
>biggest waste of money in my digital darkroom experience. Not kidding.
>High bit scans in Vuescan and final corrections in PS6 for me are faster
>and better than anything Silverfast can offer.
>
>I've downloaded and tried NikonScan 3.1 and it doesn't produce any better
>images than 3.0, and IMO the interface still sucks. Vuescan is still
>faster and better, amd I even prefer the interface.
>
>Paul Chefurka
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Amos [mailto:hamos@triad.rr.com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:54 PM
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
>
>
>Friends,
>
>I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this
>usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is
>inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these
>software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What
>will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks.
>
>Ray Amos
>
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