Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2
At 03:18 PM 6/7/01, Mikael Risedal wrote: I heard from collegues at a Swedish newspaper that the new Polaroid 120 scanner in many respects is better than a tested Imacon scanner. I will test the polaroid scanner this sunday and see if this true. Mikael, did you have the opportunity to make the test? Marvin Demuth
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2
No. My mother died so I was away. I hope to do a test next week if I have the time. Sweden's biggest newspaper and their photo department did a speed test on the scanner with Silverfast software. Time including auto focus + calibrating 6x7cm original 20MB, 1min 20 sec 82MB, 1min 25 sec (!) 260MB, 3 min 15 sec (full optical resolution 6 x 7 cm original) Impressive if you compare to Imacon or all other scanners. Mikael Risedal Photographer Lund Sweden -- From: Marvin Demuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:31:36 -0500 At 03:18 PM 6/7/01, Mikael Risedal wrote: I heard from collegues at a Swedish newspaper that the new Polaroid 120 scanner in many respects is better than a tested Imacon scanner. I will test the polaroid scanner this sunday and see if this true. Mikael, did you have the opportunity to make the test? Marvin Demuth _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2
Write to Silverfast or read at http://lasersoft-imaging.com/english/ Mikael Risedal Photographer Lund Sweden From: Robert Kehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:53:01 -0500 Mikael, Do you know if Silverfast 5.2 supports batch scanning of full rolls of 35mm film with the Nikon LS-4000 using the SA-30 roll film adapter? Bob Kehl - Original Message - From: Mikael Risedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:18 PM Subject: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 Took a quick look at the new NikonScan 3.1 version nr 3.1.0 3004 plugin LS 4000 relesed today. Same as before. Crasch boom bang with photoshop, slow scanning speed comparing to Silverfast. Silverfast are at least 5 times faster to scan a full resolution picture and no bugs. I heard from collegues at a Swedish newspaper that the new Polaroid 120 scanner in many respects is better than a tested Imacon scanner. I will test the polaroid scanner this sunday and see if this true. If it is: congratulation Polaroid. The software they used together with the scanner was Silverfast. Mikael Risedal Photographer Lund Sweden _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
I have not tried Vuescan on LS4000 but its a good basic software on LS2000. If you want a pro software and know what you are doing or will learn to scan pictures Silverfast is the best software to have IMO. And its very fast scanning software even with different filters on. In Europe we get Silverfast bundle together with Nikon LS2000 and Polaroid scanners. Mikael Risedal Photographer Lund Sweden -- From: Ray Amos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 23:54:13 -0400 Friends, I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. Ray Amos _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
Silverfast is at http://www.silverfast.com - the price is $307 USD Vuscan is a http://www.hamrick.com - the price is $40 which includes Vueprint as well. I've been using Vuescan for a over a year now. I bought Silverfast 5 for my Polaroid SS4000 (before it was bundled) and consider it to be the biggest waste of money in my digital darkroom experience. Not kidding. High bit scans in Vuescan and final corrections in PS6 for me are faster and better than anything Silverfast can offer. I've downloaded and tried NikonScan 3.1 and it doesn't produce any better images than 3.0, and IMO the interface still sucks. Vuescan is still faster and better, amd I even prefer the interface. Paul Chefurka -Original Message- From: Ray Amos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan Friends, I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. Ray Amos
RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
Paul If you know what you are doing when you are scanning a negative or positive film Silverfast is IMO superior to all other scanner software on the market today..No other software have all the features and parameters as Silverfast have (general color handling, specific color handling, white, gray ,and black point. curves , histogram and much much more. I can measure up the film in Silverfast and get scanning results who are much better in all aspects than a calculating software. It all depends on your own skills when you are working with Silverfast. VueScan is a excellent software but Silverfast is a scanning tool. If someone really will learn how to scan a film my suggestion is use Silverfast and VueScan For easy scan-VueScan. For complex scan-Silverfast. Its takes many many hours of training to be a good scanner operator but it worth it. Its like in the darkroom- the pleasure of knowing what Im doing. Mikael Risedal Photoghrapher Lund Sweden From: Paul Chefurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:56:38 -0700 Silverfast is at http://www.silverfast.com - the price is $307 USD Vuscan is a http://www.hamrick.com - the price is $40 which includes Vueprint as well. I've been using Vuescan for a over a year now. I bought Silverfast 5 for my Polaroid SS4000 (before it was bundled) and consider it to be the biggest waste of money in my digital darkroom experience. Not kidding. High bit scans in Vuescan and final corrections in PS6 for me are faster and better than anything Silverfast can offer. I've downloaded and tried NikonScan 3.1 and it doesn't produce any better images than 3.0, and IMO the interface still sucks. Vuescan is still faster and better, amd I even prefer the interface. Paul Chefurka -Original Message- From: Ray Amos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan Friends, I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. Ray Amos _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
Counterpoint - everything you are doing in Silverfast I can do much better in PhotoShop or PhotoPaint. All I want from the scan is to capture all the details in it - Vuescan will do this for me very nicely and very easily. If I need to further adjust white and black points, detail in highlights and/or shadows, or colors, I have more tools available in PhotoShop/Paint and all of the pixels I need are there from the initial scan. Its like in the darkroom - the pleasure of knowing what I'm doing. I do the same in PhotoPaint as you do in Silverfast but I can see what I am doing better. Maris - Original Message - From: Mikael Risedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan | Paul | If you know what you are doing when you are scanning a negative or positive | film Silverfast is IMO superior to all other scanner software on the | market today..No other software have all the | features and parameters as Silverfast have (general color handling, | specific color handling, white, gray ,and black point. curves , histogram | and much much more. I can measure up the film in Silverfast and get | scanning results who are much better in all aspects than a calculating | software. It all depends on your own skills when you are working with | Silverfast. VueScan is a excellent software but Silverfast is a scanning | tool. | If someone really will learn how to scan a film my suggestion is use | Silverfast and VueScan | For easy scan-VueScan. For complex scan-Silverfast. | Its takes many many hours of training to be a good scanner operator but it | worth it. Its like in the darkroom- the pleasure of knowing what Im doing. | Mikael Risedal | Photoghrapher | Lund Sweden | | From: Paul Chefurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan | Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:56:38 -0700 | | Silverfast is at http://www.silverfast.com - the price is $307 USD | Vuscan is a http://www.hamrick.com - the price is $40 which includes | Vueprint as well. | | I've been using Vuescan for a over a year now. I bought Silverfast 5 for | my Polaroid SS4000 (before it was bundled) and consider it to be the | biggest waste of money in my digital darkroom experience. Not kidding. | High bit scans in Vuescan and final corrections in PS6 for me are faster | and better than anything Silverfast can offer. | | I've downloaded and tried NikonScan 3.1 and it doesn't produce any better | images than 3.0, and IMO the interface still sucks. Vuescan is still | faster and better, amd I even prefer the interface. | | Paul Chefurka | | -Original Message- | From: Ray Amos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:54 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan | | | Friends, | | I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this | usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is | inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these | software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What | will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. | | Ray Amos | | | _ | Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. | |
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2
Mikael, Do you know if Silverfast 5.2 supports batch scanning of full rolls of 35mm film with the Nikon LS-4000 using the SA-30 roll film adapter? Bob Kehl - Original Message - From: Mikael Risedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:18 PM Subject: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 Took a quick look at the new NikonScan 3.1 version nr 3.1.0 3004 plugin LS 4000 relesed today. Same as before. Crasch boom bang with photoshop, slow scanning speed comparing to Silverfast. Silverfast are at least 5 times faster to scan a full resolution picture and no bugs. I heard from collegues at a Swedish newspaper that the new Polaroid 120 scanner in many respects is better than a tested Imacon scanner. I will test the polaroid scanner this sunday and see if this true. If it is: congratulation Polaroid. The software they used together with the scanner was Silverfast. Mikael Risedal Photographer Lund Sweden _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: filmscanners: NikonScan 3.1-Silverfast 5.2 - Vuescan
Friends, I have and love the new Nikon LS4000 scanner. According to some on this usergroup and others I know, the software that comes with the scanner is inferior. Some say Silverfast, some say Vuscan. Where do you get these software packages and how much do they cost? Which is better? What will they do that NikonScan 3.1 won't do? Thanks. Ray Amos
