Thanks Tom for your suggestions, but I'm not tempted by digital cameras yet.
I from those hard-die filmers, preferring good camera + high-quality optics
to
shoot on quality film (besides of the fact that high quality digital gear
still costs unbelievable amount of money).
I would still prefer high-quality scanning to full digital way...
What is the problem of FS4000US scanning slides ? Some kind of exposure
problems, color management or something else ?
Similar question in regard of Vuescan software dealing with negatives.
I think it's great the Vuescans inventor is listening to the List, this
seems to me the best
way to provide efficient support to his product.
Perhaps he will be able to explain us how to handle properly negatives using
his software...
Ed, are you here ?
BTW, Tom, does exposure control of the FS4000US software driven or pure
hardware ?
Do you think it will be possible for future software upgrades (by Canon
and/or Vuescan)
to implement much more efficient exposure control ?
Regards, Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of tom
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 14:52
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Canon's scanner Test photo
Hi Alex,
As it was pointed by the others, FS4000 is good machine. The only problem
is
probably lower DMAX. In case of dark (underexposed) slides I am using
"Exposure
+1" and the results are satisfactory (properly exposed slides are giving
always
proper results with auto gain). I hope that it will be possible to control
exposure more precisely in the future. Presently you can change it by 1 stop
only.
I know that you have to make difficult decision. If money are not a problem
take Nikon. If your budget is limited and photography is only your hobby,
you
will be quite happy with Canon for a half price.
Infrared channel is very important future, and Canon one is working in
perfect
way. Big DOF is also important. I tried Vuescan (demo version) and with this
software scanning slides is giving better results but in this case prints
are
very bad. I will try new version today.
With limited budget you should also remember that the semi-pro digital
cameras
will become more and more popular and it will be necessery to change our
equipment soon...
Regards
Tomasz
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