Digital BW, The Print

Scanning software
	I personally have been using Silverfast for the past 9 years. I have
compared it to Vuescan and there is no comparison as Silverfast is much
better. Two of the scanners I have had included Silverfast while the third
(Minolta 5400) did not. I forked out the money and am glad I did.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jacques
Caron
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:15 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Pacific Image Scanners

Hi Lew

You're right about saying that , although the Nikon's scans are better, they
are not world class. I'm fighting a lot to get a decent, if not good, scan
from my slides.

I (sometimes) get nice and clean results but I must stay away from "Digital
Ice"; I don't know where Nikon bought the patent but it produces so many
artifacts from the scans, that the result is non-usable. Actually I've sent
some scans to Nikon only to get a "software limits" issue from them.

I'll try to get better results from a third party scanning software
(VueScan) but I doubt it.

DMax overrated? I don't think so. For my 4x5, I usually go with the flow but
for 35mm, the higher the better. The Heidelberg Prepress (I don't know the
exact model) is quite a machine! Since I have a large collection of slides,
options are still open.

I'm sticking to my Nikon LS-500 ED IV (although Nikon is not supporting my
OS choice). I'm scanning with an older computer and processing the results
in a newer one. This is a bit of a hassle but. companies don't care too much
about compatibility these days.


Jacques Caron
Photographe
jacques.caron@...






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