[Leica] Off Topic but related.

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

David, 8.363 here. I have the pro licence. I don't think there are 
differences for batch scan, though. I think that some of the
difficulty comes from the interface. At least I don't find it friendly. 
Maybe this won't help but might log som association?
Have you saved and loaded a settings file for each session? Are you 
previewing at full resolution and then scanning from preview
-always? My scanner is the V. I gave up on batch scan as its too hard for me 
to follow. But I like to crop precisely for each and/or
check the individual exposure. That's all dependant on your volume 
throughput, I know.
FWIW I've stopped using it for black and white film all together. No matter 
what variations I try, it gives me much flatter files
than the Nikon software (much lower tonal range). For slide, I find it 
superb (colour managed)
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
David Strang
Sent: Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:43
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Off Topic but related.

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?

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