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

["JackG" <jackg@poboxes.com>]

Hi Roger,

Would you post your tables?

John in OKC

----- Original Message -----
From: <RogerMillerPhoto@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan


| Ian, thanks for the info on the new SilverFast user manual.  I knew they
were
| working on it but I'm surprised that it was released so quickly.  Is it
any
| good?  Will it put you out of business??
|
| For what it's worth, I made a series of tables showing what settings to
use
| with SilverFast.  They were based on your tutorials.  For example, three
| tables show the settings to use when scanning negative film (with
SilverFast
| NegaFix) with SilverFast Ai in the 48-bit mode, for SilverFast Ai in the
| 24-bit mode, and for SilverFast HDR (48-bit files).  I made three more
| similar tables for use when scanning transparency film.  It's a lot easier
| and less error prone for me to refer to the tables for the settings when
| doing a scan rather than digging through your tutorials each time to
figure
| out what settings to use.  It would be nice if the new SilverFast
| documentation included such tables, or at least a well organized
description
| of what settings to use.  (I haven't had time to check the new
documentation
| yet.)  If the documentation doesn't do that, you might consider adding a
| tutorial that summarizes the settings as I've described as I find such a
| summary very beneficial.
|
| In a message dated 12/4/2001 2:17:31 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ilyons@mac.com
| writes:
|
|
| > The new manual was posted to their PDF pages about 6 weeks back. It is
270
| > pages and includes Negafix, HDR, PhotoCd Job Manager and some other info
not
| > previously available. As for upgrades being charged for, yes 5.5 was a
| > charge on existing V5 users but that is VERY rare. The dot releases are
| > usually free. Version upgrades are charged for as most other software
| > companies charge - new user and upgrade are charged at different rates.
| >
| > Ian Lyons
| >
|
|
|