[filmscanners] RE: Noise in Polaroid SS 4000 scans

["" <Harry@vdKrogt.nl>]

As a matter of fact: Yesterday I upgraded to Silverfast 6 :). Silverfast
5.2 and later 5.5 gave a lot of problems (freezes) with my old 9500
computer with system 8.6. I then changed to Vuescan, I can't remember
having used Insight. Later on de new mac I saw that I had to buy an
updgrade for OSX so skipped that. My first impression of Silverfast is
rather good.
I will make a Silverfast raw scan of the same detail and see if there
are the same problems, and I will rescan in Vuescan both at 4000 dpi,
and put it there.

Harry

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Van: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] Namens HPA
Verzonden: donderdag 12 juni 2003 5:05
Aan: Harry@vdKrogt.nl
Onderwerp: [filmscanners] Noise in Polaroid SS 4000 scans


Hello, I have same setup as you G4 SS4000 etc.,  IMHO the adaptec card
is NFG, regardless of OS9.1, 9.2, or X.2whatever. when i got rid of
adaptec most of my problems went away.  I just sold the old Adaptec card
on ebay last week and got $29.50 for it LOL!  Orange Micro grappler 906
made all kinds of problems disappear. (be sure to download latest
driver)

The scan on your website is no good.  I don't know why. Something is
RONG. I never did get a good scan off the Polaroid software.  Seems the
only thing it was good for was to check whether Silverfast or Vuescan
was working OK or not.  My scans with the Polaroid software always
looked just like yours, washed out, pixilated, huge blobs of what looked
like clipped tidbits.  Your scanner is way better than that. You should
have got the silverfast bundled with your scanner.  If you don't have
it, download a trial version of vuescan and spend enough time to figure
it out, and you should not have to put up with the kind of scan you have
now. I use both Silverfast and Vuescan all the time now, never use
Polaroid insight unless something is rong and I need to test. best of
luck. tom robinson

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