Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, One word: DARKROOM! JB At 02:09 PM 1/24/2005, Mark Rabiner wrote: >I want an upgrade. > >I had started out with VueScan for chump change trying to get more punch to >my scanning cycles and batch scanning and as I recall that for every scanner >you wanted to use it with they wanted a few more extra bucks. >No batch so I got the Laserscan SE which was like a hundred bucks and it >turned out to not have batch scanning either. >It turned out that to upgrade to the AI you couldn't. >There was no upgrade. > >So I bought the full version of AI from scratch for NOT chump change but for >some real money. Like the coast of a used 50 Elmar collapsible. >And threw the SE version into digital garbage can. Should have recycled it >somehow but that truck doesn't come up into these hills. > >Turns out all I had was the Lasersoft; Silverfast, what ever it is for my >Umax PowerLook III. My mighty flatbed with 8x10 transparency adapter and >1200 dpi which cost me 1500 bucks five years ago and now is worth about 88 >dollars and 88 cents. Or a scanner with about those specs. > >I got the Epson Perfection 4870 Photo flatbed this weekend which is 4800 >dpi!!!!?! 800 dpi more than my Nikon Coolscan 5000 film scanner which is >still pretty much the standard of the film scanning at your desktop >industry. > >I thought I'd spend an extra hundred bucks and get the Silverfast plug in >for my Nikon. >No such luck. >They want another 300. >I'd have to pay from scratch for the software what amounts to the fourth >time. > >Time to dusk off my darkroom. > >Is that how it usually is for scanning software? That for every scanner you >want to use it with you buy it from scratch? > >Oh they were going to give me 15 percent off! > >Oh turns out the new upgrade to my Epson perfection 4870 Photo flatbed is >coming out in a few weeks for the same money as I got this one. Same specs >same money. Only it will have a full 8x10 transparency adapter not just a >6x9 inch one. > >I want an upgrade. > >NO ARCHIVE > >Hold the anchovies. > > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information