Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

I run it on Win98SE and I've never had things not work.

If it happens, write Ed and he'll be quick to help, I'm sure.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm@oven.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan


| 2001-12-04-17:54:39 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.:
| > I was up and running with it within an hour as I recall, and the
| > results have (almost) always been excellent (exceptions are
| > exceptional frames - my fault, or old film, etc.)
| > 
| > I am happy with the interface as is.
| 
| I don't pine for fancy UI gewgaws either -- hell, I'd probably be
| entirely happy with a mostly command-line scanning infrastructure.
| The one thing I'd love to see corrected is that in my admittedly
| limited tenure with Vuescan, I haven't yet seen an error message.
| 
| I've seen things not work, I've seen things like the device menu
| sometimes not having entries, and I haven't known what to do except to
| apply common-sense guesswork and trial and error until whatever
| condition is peeving the program (could be a missing subdirectory,
| could be bad permissions, could be an un-loaded SCSI driver) allows it
| to function.  I'd love some clues to point me vaguely in the direction
| I need to be looking in.
| 
| Maybe this is a special feature of the Linux version, though -- I
| haven't tried the others.
| 
| Makes lovely scans, though (and I don't think I'd be making *any*
| scans on Linux without it) once you propitiate it.