Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Sprintscan 4000
From: csocolow <csocolow@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 11:22:20 -0500

merci beaucoup, mon ami. That's what I'm coming to fear. I also want to
investigate gamma defaults between the scanner, its software and photoshop.

Pascal wrote:

> On 03-02-2000 06:58 csocolow wrote:
>
> >So, I'm having trouble getting a good grayscale scan. When I preview the
> >b&w neg in Polaroid's PolaColor Insight 4.0 software the preview looks
> >great. When I do the scan and it opens in Photoshop it looks very washed
> >out/overexposed. I can correct this using Photoshop's curves, etc. but
> >I'd like to get a native scan that resembles my preview.
>
> Carl,
>
> from what I read in reviews of the Polaroid SprintScan 4000, it seems to
> be excellent hardware but seriously let down by its software. You really
> need to buy other software like Lasersoft's Silverscan.
>
> Pascal
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