[filmscanners] Re: vuescan

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Matt,

I use Vuescan with my LS4000, but after I have scanned the film with
NikonScan!

I scan with NS (color management off and y=1 for highbit scans and 2.2 for
lowbit scans) so I can use ICE (Vuescans implementation of ICE is not as
good IMO). Then I do all the color conversions in vuescan (simply scan the
NikonScan raw file) because I can do several different ones and compare the
results quickly, and output into Ektaspace which I can't do with NS. The
lastest versions of Vuescan do use your monitor profile for previews
(earlier versions didn't).

I am assuming most things work the same on an LS8000.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Haber" <matt@matthaber.com>


seems like vuescan might be useful, but here are my gripes. maybe
somebody can set me straight....

my hardware is the nikon ls 8000.

i tried the tryout version...which seems useless for critical
comparisons, because of the "$40" on the final image. that's my first
gripe. it may be cheap, but I don't want to spend any $$ unless it will
improve my result.

second, it seems to take a very long time to scan, render and save,
compared to the nikon scan software.

It seems to be very kludgy about helping to identify  a particular
image. It will do preview scans of everything, but that also takes a
very long time.

its only advantage seems to be the way the software is tuned to the
film. I use fuji Reala, and it seemed to produce a much better
preview scan right out of the box. BUT i'm not sure that alone is
worth it. any thoughts?


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