Because it generally captures *all* of the information on the film without clipping highlights or shadows, and does so with a minimum amount of adjustment. Many (including myself) prefer to adjust highlights, shadows, contrast etc. using Photoshop or a similar graphics program where the image can be seen better and more accurately than in the scanning software and adjustments can therefore be made more accurately.
The alternative is to set the highlights and shadows and make the other adjustments in the scanning software (though my concern is that, given to poor view of the image in the scanning software I might clip narrower than I would otherwise have wanted), but one is going to open the image in Photoshop anyway to examine it and more likely than not will have to make further adjustments - why do it twice? Maris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Film scanners? > Why is Vuescan a better choice than most other programs, and, seemingly, > better, or more highly praised, than the factory software? > > Mishka wrote: > > > One more think: when you read the reviews, ignore *all* the talks about > > software. There's a VueScan program that runs pretty much all the > > scanners on most platforms (win32, linux, mac in all its incarnations) > > and it is *very good* (only $45 if I remember correctly) > > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ > "When a man's best friend is his dog, > that dog has a problem." --Edward Abbey > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
