Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, my Minolta MultiPro gives me a 65 MB 16-bit _grayscale_ file and VueScan takes about 5 minutes to process the file. It's worth the wait, but I'm glad I don't do much color :) Gilbert On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Carl Pultz wrote: > I've just started using Vuescan and like it a lot for color neg. Didn't > really have any complaints about the Silverfast interface, and > 'Negafix' is very helpful. Instead, it was it's rendering of contrast > that I got frustrated with. I find Vuescan produces very long scale > images, with more natural color, and greater acuitence/sharpness of > grain structure using the milder infrared cleaning. Maybe I didn't get > Silverfast setup properly, but eight months of use should be enough to > figure it out! So, maybe it is an interface problem, or just the way > this sw behaves. Hamrick used a Coolscan III, the same scanner I have. > > My Vuescan complaint: Compared to Silverfast or the latest Nikonscan > sw, it takes almost two minutes to process a 26 meg tif file after the > scan is done, on my P3, 450. That's with minimal infrared clean. Is it > that slow for the rest of you? > > Worth the wait - much nicer scans, easier to 'shop. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html