Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] Off Topic but related.
From: dstrang at charter.net (David Strang)
Date: Mon Nov 20 17:37:28 2006

Has anyone seen a version of VueScan that hasn't had serious problems?

I've been using VueScan for a couple of years now and I've always been
impressed by the ease of use and the quality scans that result. 

The current version is 8.3.80 which I installed tonight. Problem is: it will 
not
drive the scan portion of the scan, ie I can preview but it hangs on the 
scan.
I have a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000 scannerthat used to work, but previous
versions of Vuescan would lose the color information after scanning the 
third or
fourth scan in a batch scan sequence. Worse yet, I would preview say all ten
images (2 strips of five) and set the focus, white and black points, 
brightness, and
color (RGB) bias. Once everything was set I could hit scan and all ten 
images would
be scanned and saved...in theory! In practise, the first 2 images would 
usually 
(not always) scan okay, but the color of the remaining scans would be no 
where
near what I set the preview to. Worse yet, examining the preview image would 
show
that had changed from what I had originally set. 

This has been a headache for 35mm scans, the medium format scan situation is 
much
worse.

I've sent logfiles to Ed Hamrick with descriptions of the problem(s) with 
little to no success.

What is someone elses experience with Vuescan?

I hope Ed does something as my R8 negatives are piling up.

Regards,
Dave Strang

PS: I've seen the price of the DMR for as low as $2500, is this too good to 
trust? What have others seen?

Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] Off Topic but related.)