I'm with Wolf on this one. I use an SS4000 at 4,000 dpi most of the time and I am now waiting an extra long time to catch a Save. Since my viewer is set to Photoshop as the default viewer, I now must add this to the extra read time for the Tiff in Photoshop and I am really waiting a longer time. It isn't impatience, it's just that it now takes longer than it used to. Owen
Owen P. Evans Osgoode, Ontario. Canada (near our nation's capital; Ottawa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.33-3 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolf Eilers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:07 AM Subject: [filmscanners] Vuescan 7.4.2 and saving RAW files Recently I sent a note to Ed asking about a performance feature that I believe no longer exists in the 7.4+ versions of VueScan. I stated: In previous releases of VueScan (versions 7.3.7 and up) saving a RAW file was significantly improved by scanning and writing files at the same time. With version 7.4 and up this very important feature seems to have been removed. Perhaps the disappearance is because of the enhancement that applies Infrared cleaning and Size reduction filters to RAW files before saving them. However, if Infrared clean is set to None and Size reduction set to 1, then VueScan should still (as it did in the past with version 7.3.13) save RAW files while scanning. Ed kindly and promptly replied indicating that the performance should be a bit better in 7.4.2. Unfortunately, VueScan 7.4.2 still seems to scan the image, then apply whatever filters are appropriate, then save the RAW file to disk. It does this even if all filters are set to none. Saving a large RAW file to disk can take considerable time -- 40 seconds with tif compression on my machine. In contrast, release 7.3.13 of VueScan saves the RAW file to disk synchronously with the scan. When the scan completes, the RAW file is on the disk. On my Nikon LS40 with VueScan 7.3.13, I can scan and save a full resolution (2900 dpi) 64 bit RGBI file (59 MB) in 137 seconds. With VueScan 7.4.2 the time to scan and save is 175 seconds -- an extra 40 seconds. Please note that I set no filters (like infrared cleaning) or size reduction to the RAW scan. Am I the only one who misses the scan/save performance feature of 7.3.13? By the way, I am also in the camp that does not want any processing (infrared cleaning or otherwise) applied to RAW files. Wolf Eilers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body