From: Kenneth Carney (kcarney@mmcable.com)
Date: 06/07/00-06:53:50 PM Z
Judy, I have used the VueScan software since the original DOS beta versions,
and it is quite excellent. Most of my scanning is large-format, but for
the occasional 35mm I have a dinky HP Photosmart (the original SCSI model)
and VueScan. It's pretty amazing. I don't think a photographer would have
any problem with the learning curve (it asks you for contrast indexes,
etc.), but Uncle Elmo would probably be pretty frustrated trying to do the
cruise pics. BTW it comes with an excellent viewer, VuePrint. It is
available for Mac and Linux. Download at www.hamrick.com. Hope this helps.
Regards,
--Ken Carney
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
To: Alt Photo List <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:45 PM
Subject: re: 35 mm Scanners
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Editor - P.O.V. Image Service wrote:
> > I've had the Polaroid SS 4000 for almost a year now...
> >
> > Been ecstatically pleased with it..
> >
> > Would suggest getting the VueScan software for an additional $40 if you
are
> > going to be doing a lot of scans...
> >
> > You can find it at :
> >
> > www.hamrick.com.
> >
> > It will even let you do multi-pass scanning for those dense negs and
slides...
> >
> > And does a much better job of color conversion than does the Insight
Software
> > from Polaroid...
> >
> > It also has profiles for a host of emulsions that Polaroid's software
does
> > not...
> >
> > The Polaroid software is ok for general use, but for serious scanning,
the
> > VueScan software is worth the $40..
>
> I've had the Polaroid SprintScan 35 for over a year now, making it
> veritably a dinosaur among peripherals, and tho the hardware is probably
> OK, I gather it's not now nor ever was top of the line. But the software
> was, well the word around here would be verblungit, which might translate
> as "the pits." In fact the company said my scanner was defective and sent
> a replacement, was even prepared to replace that as defective until I,
> moi, their non-compos ditsy customer, figured out that contrary to the
> then "manual" it wouldn't scan in b&w mode, plus other details of like
> order.
>
> Presumably the Vue Scan would be more intelligent, leading me to wonder:
>
> does it work on other models?
>
> does it work on the Mac?
>
> where does one get it? from that Website?
>
> And what if one is NOT a "serious scanner," that is, average no more than
> a dozen scans in a month, usually, but willing to lay out $40 ANYWAY? (I
> have some exceptionally dense b&w negs.) Would the learning curve and
> general improvement justify installing and learning yet another new
> program (in your opinion of course)?
>
> Thanks for any & all enlightenment.
>
> Judy
>
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