[filmscanners] Re: Focusing on SS4000

["David Sirola" <dsirola@saylorsirola.com>]

I've always had a bit of intermittent focus trouble with the 4000+

Most of the time, focus is dead on, but sometimes, it just does not want to
focus......only true with polacolor and silverfast (silverfast shares the
same polaroid focus software)........it seems that on certain images, it
just loses it. Seems to happen more with provia and film materials with
little or no grain. That said, vuescan ALWAYS returns a sharp scan, since it
uses its own focus software.

Not an answer, just venting

> From: "" <snsok@cox.net> Reply-To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk Date: Sun, 27
> Apr 2003 19:03:37 -0500 To: dsirola@saylorsirola.com Subject: [filmscanners]
> RE: Focusing on SS4000
>
> I have one of the pre-pay-again versions of Vuescan 7.5.41.
>
> Do you have one of the newer versions? Are the scans any sharper?
>
> If so, is it worth upgrading from what I have now?
>
> Stan Schwartz
>
> -----Original Message----- From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Thomas Maugham Sent:
> Sunday, April 27, 2003 5:38 PM To: snsok@cox.net Subject: [filmscanners] RE:
> Focusing on SS4000
>
>
> I use VueScan and have the 'auto focus' set to 'always' so that it focuses for
> the preview and scan.
>
> Regards, Tom Maugham
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of snsok@cox.net Sent:
> Sunday, April 27, 2003 6:10 PM To: TMaugham@yahoo.com Subject: [filmscanners]
> Focusing on SS4000
>
>
> I use the SS4000 primarily with Polacolor Insight sortware.
>
> I thought you could scan a slide initially then deselect the option to enable
> focus on final scan for subsequent scans. When I do that, my subsequent scans
> were noticeably soft and that improved after rescanning with the enable focus
> box checked.
>
> Does anyone have words of wisdom about this focus setting?
>
> Stan Schwartz
>
>
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