RE: filmscanners: Multiple Pass Scanning on the SS4000

["Hemingway, David J" <HEMINGD@polaroid.com>]

I am glad Ed said that! And last week he said the same of the Sprintscan
120.  One of my pet peeves is that multiscanning has taken on a life of its
own with people thinking multiscanning is good. Multiscanning is necessary
to cover up other inadequacies. I ain't no badge of honor!!!! 
All that being said the 4000+ will support multiscanning and it has been
implemented in the 4000+ version of Silverfast. It was done to satisfy the
"check box" buyers.
In my personal view any scanner requiring multiscanning to get acceptable
results is poorly designed.
David

 -----Original Message-----
From:   EdHamrick@aol.com [mailto:EdHamrick@aol.com] 
Sent:   Monday, December 03, 2001 6:32 AM
To:     filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject:        Re: filmscanners: Multiple Pass Scanning on the SS4000

In a message dated 12/2/2001 12:45:22 PM EST, stan@smcqueen.com writes:

> The Vuescan Users' Guide mentions that the SS4000 often has registration 
>  problems between passes and that a future version of Vuescan will fix 
this. 
>  I have experienced this myself, resulting in somewhat fuzzy images. Do
you 
>  know when this might be fixed?

I've been thinking about working on this, but it never bubbles up
to the top of my list.  The SprintScan 4000 has so little noise in
the dark parts of scans that there's no real need for multi-pass
scanning.  This keeps this feature from bubbling up to the top
of my list.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick