Matt, I use Vuescan with my LS4000, but after I have scanned the film with NikonScan!
I scan with NS (color management off and y=1 for highbit scans and 2.2 for lowbit scans) so I can use ICE (Vuescans implementation of ICE is not as good IMO). Then I do all the color conversions in vuescan (simply scan the NikonScan raw file) because I can do several different ones and compare the results quickly, and output into Ektaspace which I can't do with NS. The lastest versions of Vuescan do use your monitor profile for previews (earlier versions didn't). I am assuming most things work the same on an LS8000. Bob Frost. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Haber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> seems like vuescan might be useful, but here are my gripes. maybe somebody can set me straight.... my hardware is the nikon ls 8000. i tried the tryout version...which seems useless for critical comparisons, because of the "$40" on the final image. that's my first gripe. it may be cheap, but I don't want to spend any $$ unless it will improve my result. second, it seems to take a very long time to scan, render and save, compared to the nikon scan software. It seems to be very kludgy about helping to identify a particular image. It will do preview scans of everything, but that also takes a very long time. its only advantage seems to be the way the software is tuned to the film. I use fuji Reala, and it seemed to produce a much better preview scan right out of the box. BUT i'm not sure that alone is worth it. any thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body