Digital BW, The Print

Daniel Staver wrote:

>>That's something you should report to Ed Hamrick. Hardware limits should 
>>be at the top to control before drivers are launched and I'm 
>>disappointed that this could happen. Have not had similar issues with my 
>>scanners though.
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>I just got an email from Ed. This is a known problem and the glass 
>holder does not work with Vuescan right now. He hopes to fix that soon.
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Good news.
I asked him several things last week among them to add the Grey Lab and 
RGB Lab space profiles of QTR to Vuescan but it will not happen.
Well scanning at 16 bit and assigning 2.2 Gamma to the Tiff and 
converting that to Grey Lab in PSCS will not change much in the data 
anyway but it is a bit less elegant. The other question was for an extra 
code for the Nikon 8000 wet mount carrier so I can get the maximum area 
possible in one scan on the 8000, it is however hardcoded in the 
firmware of the scanner so I can forget that.

>The other film holders work fine. I just tested the 35mm holder and it 
>works really well. Of course, film flatness and depth of field is a 
>problem with this scanner - even with 35mm film. So the scan wasn't 
>entirely sharp across the entire film area.
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It needs a wet mount carrier then like I have made for the Nikon 8000.  
Never had a 120tf carrier in my hands so can't judge whether it is possible.

>He's also added a 'Make gray from... (red/green/blue)' option to the 
>software since last time I checked. This is really nice as a composite 
>of all channels often results in very poor quality with the 120tf. This 
>way I won't have to save a 48bit RGB and then extract one of the 
>channels myself.
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>Once he fixes the glass holder support I'll once again be a loyal 
>Vuescan user. I just like the interface so much better than Silverfast.
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>While writing this he sent me another email to let me know he might have 
>a test version ready for me today already. Now that's good support!
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There are risks to buy software from a one man shop but in my experience 
the advantages outweigh them multiple times. That was so when I started 
using a niche computer system 15 years ago (Risc Os on Acorn machines) 
and it still is with people like Ed, Qimage Mike, QTR Roy, etc.

Ernst