Re: scanning options for slide archival...

Actually Don, Silverfast lets you "manual everything" as well as auto by use of their "expert" settings

regards,

Randy Howard wrote:
Don wrote
(in article <epb162lm7qhf9b9mtgsl0dvha578rpcm9k@xxxxxxx>):


On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:21:01 GMT, Randy Howard
<randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Oh boy! You do have your work cut out for you!

So I am learning. I should have just sent my father a weblink to the bhphoto page for a Nikon dedicated slide scanner and told him my flatbed wouldn't cut it. :-)

LOL! Very good! :-)


I was mostly joking, because I don't think he has the patience to do them all. Perhaps that really means he wouldn't be stupid enough to spend this much time like I am. :-)


Well, I've tripped over a few things, but mostly the interface is just haphazard. It seems to work once you figure out all the weirdness, like menu options coming and going based upon other ones, and in one case an option disappearing (although still documented) after grabbing the last update off the website (otherwise he won't answer email questions).

The VueScan's alleged :-) interface is a whole subject in its own
right (it also causes a lot of problems because the display often
doesn't correspond to actual settings, etc).

But I was referring to structural problems. The program is pretty bad
with really fundamental and elementary bugs. Many bugs also never seem
to go away but keep reappearing, etc. It just gives an impression of a
house of cards just waiting to fall over.


Perhaps so, but I don't have a lot of options at this point. Factoring in all of those issues, it's still better than the Canon slopware. Suffice it to say I won't be buying any products dependent upon Canon software in the future.


Nonetheless, there are some dedicated VueScan users here and if you do
decide to use it they will able to help you navigate the many bugs.


The claim of great support someone mentioned earlier isn't so true. I sent in a simple question and got zero response from the developer. But again, it's better than what I have now...


But yes, it's not great, but it's a huge step up from the Canon software. Plus, a nasty blue cast I was getting on some of the slides vanishes when rescanning with VueScan.

You can do that in any scanning software by setting the gray point.


Yes, but what I'm talking about it just the default settings on a supposedly 'raw' scan. Plus, the preview image looks normal with the Canon software, but 15-20 minutes later, you get a tiff file with a nasty blue color cast that wasn't there in the preview. Don't have that problem with vuescan.


But this has nothing to do with actual scanning. The data you get from
the scanner is the same.


That's just it. I don't see that happening. ScanGear is doing something (funny) to the data on only some of the scans. Others come out ok.


If anything, VueScan (due to all the bugs)
often corrupts this data and then tries to mask it by doing all the
"editing". So, at first blush (a cursory glance) that may look
"better" even though in reality (after closer examination) it's
actually really much worse.


I haven't had that happen yet, but I haven't exactly beaten it to death yet either.


Anyway, that goes back to what I wrote earlier. Such editing is better
left for dedicated editing software and post-processing.


Fair enough.


Still, like I say, there are some people who swear by VueScan. As well
as many others who swear at it! ;o)


I know the feeling.


It's looking like one of the few options available to me at this point unless I buy yet another scanner.

There's also SilverFast but it's *very* pricey! It does even more
things "automatically" and does them pretty well but you also have to
buy a separate version for each scanner! :-/ I haven't really examined
it in a lot of detail because its approach (auto-everything) is quite
the opposite of what I was after. Anyway, you can also download a
trial version from http://www.silverfast.com/.


According to their site, they don't support FARE on my scanner, but that may not be a big deal. Anyway, it's downloading the demo version now... thanks for the link.

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