Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Scanner Progress...... Vuescan
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sun Oct 19 06:29:27 2008
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Once I got the SW running ( which took hitting the default buttons on all
the menus!!!) I tried out a roll of film.  It scanned beautifully.  It is
pretty flexible, in  so stating, can get screwed up pretty easily.  The
source o fmy problems.

It also crashes on my computer.... must find the reason there.....  This
only started after I got the rest of it to work.  Before that, it was
relatively bullet proof.

The interface is what I prefer... give me options, and do what I expect it
will do.  The NikonScan SW is purely bizarre.....  It has words for things
that just make no sense.... and have nothing to do with the function at
hand. Having said that, it will not crash on my computer.

Anyway, assuming I can get the SW to become stable, and the advantage of
having output of DNG files, I think I am sold on it.  SilverFast is too $$$
for me as an amateur....   It may be better, but for what I am doing, price
counts!

If the guy gets $40 a download, and let's assume that only 10% of the
downloads are paid for, that is 500K copies at $40 each for  $20 Million
.......  not a bad business model!  NO wonder he can offer a long ( forever)
evaluation timeframe.

Yes, I miss Dos.  Actually, this point and shoot thing of Windows is ......
well, best left unsaid.  Multitasking with different programs running at the
same time is just not that valuable.  Good work comes from Focus.  

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


 Hi Frank, yes the dollar watermark is new, I think. Understandable, though.
They have had something like 5 million downloads, I read
today......................


Now tell the truth, do you REALLY TRULY miss working with MSDOS???
You won't like Photoshop CS4 then ;-)


Cheers
Geoff




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