> On Oct 27, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On Oct 25, 2017, at 3:55 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: >> >> Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> I bought VueScan when I bought the Minolta Dimage scanner back in 2002 or >>> 2003. The Minolta software was offal and kept crashing on me. VueScan was a >>> bit of a pain to figure out, but it worked well ... and continues to work >>> well though umpteen revisions and who knows how many scanners 15 years >>> later. >>> >>> These latest versions are really quite easy to use compared to the older >>> ones. I run the Nikon and Epson scanners with it ... it always produces >>> good results! >> >> Yep, the latest user interface is really very good. And the ability to >> use the same scanning software with many different scanners — even >> different makes — simplifies things greatly. > > I have an Epson V500 flatbed. Bought it to scan a deceased brother’s photos, > but have yet to get around to it. I’ve used it mainly for scanning documents > and have always found the software awkward. Just never got the hang of it. > Might I fare better with VueScan?
After having success with Epson Scan with b&w images, and finding color images a little more difficult, I decided to check out VueScan on color film images. It’s clear that VueScan gives you a lot more control over the process, but that makes for a steep and long learning curve, at least for this photo tech idiot. Very, very mystifying. It’s also pretty quirky. After getting a little traction with “batch scanning,” i.e., scanning multiple images on film, batch processing suddenly disappeared. Even with batch processing selected, VueScan would only scan one image at a time. VueScan’s numbering of frames was incomprehensible. With two strips of film with four images on each, VueScan assigned number 1 to the second frame, counting from top left strip. I could not get it to give a number to the first frame. On the second strip the number 5 was assigned to two frames. That was after I’d selected all eight frames—or at least I thought I’d selected them; I really have no idea. Certainly will not plunk down $90 for software I cannot be sue I’ll ever learn how to use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
