I DID shoot a grey scale ages ago on Scala and neg and tried to make my own IT8 calibration but I found the built in defaults to be just as adequate esp when editing in Photoshop. Obviously for B & W film it was next to useless. I one tried to 'calibrate' the scanner using a Kodak Q IT8 Target (like the one in the other thread you and I are subscribed to about calibration of scanners). Other than that I have found the 'Help' files very useful for the learning curve. As a controller for my CanoScan FS 4000US it is great. I DO use the built-in film references in the 'Colour' tab but over time I have not noticed a great degree of difference in my RAW scans. DNG and use Photoshop for my image correction. I tend to NOT use any of the software options that are part of Vuescan rather I scan RAW to. I shoot B & W neg, mostly Delta 3200 and T-Max 3200 35mm. I like Vuescan and have been using it for years now. The UI is at best an up hill battle and the online manual is a version out of date and covers about 50% of the program's functionality.Īnyone with experience using vuescan v 9 who wishes to share how to get the most out of the application - such as scanning 35mm, 6圆 and 6x9 film strips - please feel free to enlighten me. Vuescan also had the added benefit of running all the scanners. Silver fast is good, I like the options, but the scan quality when all things were equal was inferior to Vuescan.

4.02 is buggy and prone to crashing on OSX 10.6. I can't tolerate software of this nature. You have to edit a start up script to keep arch soft from loading and being in your face - no way to do it in preferences. Epson's software is ok at best, but what is awaful is it loads a thing called arcsoft that thinks its ok to stay permanently in your face with a little transparent messaging tab up under the apple menu. So on one machine I need to drive an Epson flatbed, Nikon film scanner and soon a Minolta film scanner.

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