Re: RES: Scanning
I use V700 and V750, with VueScan and Epson Scan softwares. V700 is sufficient for continuous tone pictorial images, but V750 may be better for more high contrast materials. Epson Scan is easier to use for mass scanning of color materials, and VueScan is better for fine control over many things, but it only has simple facilities for batch scanning and color correction to make it less perfect choice for mass scanning projects. Also, when you use Epson Scan, it makes you feel that, besides a few check boxes and stuff you see on the small panel, almost everything is taken care of by the software itself, but you will need to adjust the exposure level, etc., for each batch of negatives (or you may get clipped highlights, etc.) and so you will need to be familiar with options/controls that are available on the deeper panels. I do not know why Epson made the interface that way; it would be much easier if the expert mode laid all options out in a more accessible way. I usually work on scanned images in Lightroom. Operations that are essential for scanned images are a lot easier to do on Lightroom: color correction, straightening and cropping. Some talk about the option to scan images on VueScan and save it in DNG to work in Lightroom. This may work well for transparencies but I am not sure if it is better for negatives, since the image in DNG is negative and the rest of editing will be awkward. Another issue with scanning softwares is that, when you apply the processing to the image and save it, none of the softwares I use take advantage of multiple cores. In my experience of using MacPro 8 core, only Lightroom and Photoshop take advantage of the extra cores so far. -- Ryuji Suzuki "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986)
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