On 3 Jun 2004 at 17:14, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Now that I'll soon have my very Coolscan film scanner, these questions have more > significance. So, what is it about Nikon software that you don't like? In what > way is Vuescan better?
Primarily Vuescan is a generic interface it has been available more or less in its current form for many years and it talks to many devices. Therefore you don't need to familiarize yourself with different package for each device. For instance it will even process *ist D RAW PEF files now. It also have good basic colour control and calibration options plus a nice straight forward no bells and whistles interface. For instance one very nice option is the histogram preview, it's pretty much unique in that it provides a view of the unaltered histogram with the modified (due to the users pre-set adjustments) below, it also simultaneously displays composite RGB and independent R, G and B histograms. The lack of ICE in Vuescan is of little consequence if your films are kept free of dust and scratches due to bad handling. > I've downloaded the Vuescan "Getting Started" guide and can see some > features that Nikonscan doesn't have (at least not that I know of), but > features "don't mean squat" unless they work well. Therefore, any comments from > experienced users of both software packages would be appreciated, especially > concerning the newest versions of each. Nikonscan has some on going issues WRT it's neg scanning algorithms however I don't know if this affects your scanner: http://www.marginalsoftware.com/LS8000Notes/NS_neg_scanning.htm Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
