I too have had good success using Vuescan with BW negs. But like you I find it horribly clunky with transparencies or color negs. It needs some fine adjustment knobs. With the current version, tiny tweaks can cause over-the-cliff changes. And on my system, the previews do little to predict the actual scan.
Paul On Mar 2, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Vuescan for B&W negative scans and love it for that purpose. For > traditional B&W film - Vuescan makes it very easy to capture the full tonal > range without clipping the histogram and then it is just a few simple curve > adjustments to get things just right. I have to fight with the programs > provided with the scanners (Kikonscan, Filmget or Epson scan, depending on > the scanner) to get them to preserve the full tonal range in B&W. > > But for color work I revert back to the bundled software. I am sure that one > can get great results with color film and Vuescan, but all of the other > programs just do it with minimal fuss. Vuescan looks like it needs more > tweaking. Even Nikonscan - which I find to be just annoying as hell - is > still easier to use the Vuescan. > > Mark > > On 2/24/2014 11:06 PM, David Mann wrote: >> On Feb 25, 2014, at 3:19 pm, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> not certain from your description, but if VueScan works with this scanner, >>> it's possible it could give you a more efficient workflow - might be worth >>> a shot with the demo >> I knew someone would recommend that. I tried the demo version again a few >> months ago and just ended up hating it again. Just couldn't get good >> results, the colours were all over the place and I wasn't able to easily >> correct them in Photoshop. It was a shame as I'd have been able to do my >> scanning using my Macbook Pro, which I can't with the Minolta software. >> It's PPC or Windows only, and Virtualbox doesn't support Firewire. >> >> For most slides the Minolta software is very efficient anyway, it's only >> this weird case I've just come across after about 8 or 9 years of owning it. >> Before now I don't think I've ever applied a negative exposure setting. It >> may be something about this old film. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
