Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT
The manual is also available for separate download at Silverfast's website http://www.silverfast.com/english/download/pdfs.html Maris - Original Message - From: "Bud" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT | The Silverfast manual can be accessed from the preview window of Silverfast | then click on the 'question mark.' The manual is a pdf file and is quite | comprehensive. | | - Original Message - | From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:15 AM | Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT | | | On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:35:35 EDT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | |However, now I'm trying | to figure out how the undocumented Insight and poorly documented | Silverfast software works. No one on the list offered to help me | figure it out following my last post. | | Insight should have a help file, and certainly did, though I don't know if | that has gone AWOL with later versions supplied on CD. | | Silverfast is pretty hard, and I wouldn't try and engage with that unless | and until you know your way round scanning. Even then, it's far from | intuitive as it goes way beyond basic scanning functions. | | However the real problem with most scanner s/w is that you get no | education about which adjustments to use for which faults, or even how to | identify them correctly. I have some sympathy with this : you wouldn't | expect a car handbook to tell you how the clutch works and when to use it. | | It's no help right now, but I am working on addressing this as part of | website Mk2. | | My credibility WRT that must be 0 by now, as it has taken so long. But | the end of the major diversion - evolution of an equitable subscription | scheme*** quite unlike anything else on the net - which has delayed it, is | now in sight. | | Maybe I need to buy Vuscan. | (LOL, as they say!) | | You don't *need* to, and there's a good case for getting to grips with 8 | bit scanning using Insight first as its controls are more intuitive. To | get the best out of VS often requires a different approach, scanning to | 16bit and carrying out some corrections within PS. Ultimately it is worth | it, especially with negs, but it may temporarily increase vertigo for | people who are clinging on to the steep and rocky learning curve by their | fingernails. Take small steps, breathe deeply, rest often, don't look down | :) | | OT | *** I will post a separate msg about this soon, as we need beta testers. | /OT | | Regards | | Tony Sleep | http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner | info comparisons | | |
Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT
The Silverfast manual can be accessed from the preview window of Silverfast then click on the 'question mark.' The manual is a pdf file and is quite comprehensive. - Original Message - From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:15 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:35:35 EDT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, now I'm trying to figure out how the undocumented Insight and poorly documented Silverfast software works. No one on the list offered to help me figure it out following my last post. Insight should have a help file, and certainly did, though I don't know if that has gone AWOL with later versions supplied on CD. Silverfast is pretty hard, and I wouldn't try and engage with that unless and until you know your way round scanning. Even then, it's far from intuitive as it goes way beyond basic scanning functions. However the real problem with most scanner s/w is that you get no education about which adjustments to use for which faults, or even how to identify them correctly. I have some sympathy with this : you wouldn't expect a car handbook to tell you how the clutch works and when to use it. It's no help right now, but I am working on addressing this as part of website Mk2. My credibility WRT that must be 0 by now, as it has taken so long. But the end of the major diversion - evolution of an equitable subscription scheme*** quite unlike anything else on the net - which has delayed it, is now in sight. Maybe I need to buy Vuscan. (LOL, as they say!) You don't *need* to, and there's a good case for getting to grips with 8 bit scanning using Insight first as its controls are more intuitive. To get the best out of VS often requires a different approach, scanning to 16bit and carrying out some corrections within PS. Ultimately it is worth it, especially with negs, but it may temporarily increase vertigo for people who are clinging on to the steep and rocky learning curve by their fingernails. Take small steps, breathe deeply, rest often, don't look down :) OT *** I will post a separate msg about this soon, as we need beta testers. /OT Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons
Re: filmscanners: Insight, Silverfast, VS - was What's MFT
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:35:35 EDT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, now I'm trying to figure out how the undocumented Insight and poorly documented Silverfast software works. No one on the list offered to help me figure it out following my last post. Insight should have a help file, and certainly did, though I don't know if that has gone AWOL with later versions supplied on CD. Silverfast is pretty hard, and I wouldn't try and engage with that unless and until you know your way round scanning. Even then, it's far from intuitive as it goes way beyond basic scanning functions. However the real problem with most scanner s/w is that you get no education about which adjustments to use for which faults, or even how to identify them correctly. I have some sympathy with this : you wouldn't expect a car handbook to tell you how the clutch works and when to use it. It's no help right now, but I am working on addressing this as part of website Mk2. My credibility WRT that must be 0 by now, as it has taken so long. But the end of the major diversion - evolution of an equitable subscription scheme*** quite unlike anything else on the net - which has delayed it, is now in sight. Maybe I need to buy Vuscan. (LOL, as they say!) You don't *need* to, and there's a good case for getting to grips with 8 bit scanning using Insight first as its controls are more intuitive. To get the best out of VS often requires a different approach, scanning to 16bit and carrying out some corrections within PS. Ultimately it is worth it, especially with negs, but it may temporarily increase vertigo for people who are clinging on to the steep and rocky learning curve by their fingernails. Take small steps, breathe deeply, rest often, don't look down :) OT *** I will post a separate msg about this soon, as we need beta testers. /OT Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio exhibit; + film scanner info comparisons
