RE: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-30 Thread Paul Graham
> You can still (and should) tag the image with the monitor profile > after all > it is the profile being used when you edit the image. Once the image opens > in Photoshop you simply allow conversion to your preferred colour space. > This is the method suggested by Polaroid in their web based help

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-29 Thread Ian Lyons
Dave, > Am I correct the primary improvement is the addition of film terms? They provided a large number of profiles as part of the package, but the primary benefit would be the significantly improved negative scanning tools. they are much easier to sue and allow a greater degree of fine tuning

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-29 Thread Dave King
> >> I'm using the 4000 for the first time since an initial test to make > >> sure it worked properly. I've been trying Insight, Vuescan and > >> Silverfast 5.1 ai on a Win 98 box. So far all my scans are color > >> negs. > > You should try Version 5.5 if scanning negatives. It is a LOT better.

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-28 Thread Ian Lyons
Dave, >> I'm using the 4000 for the first time since an initial test to make >> sure it worked properly. I've been trying Insight, Vuescan and >> Silverfast 5.1 ai on a Win 98 box. So far all my scans are color >> negs. You should try Version 5.5 if scanning negatives. It is a LOT better. Y

Re: filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-28 Thread RogerMillerPhoto
If you want to scan color negatives, you really need to upgrade Silverfast to 5.5 as its NegaFix film profile feature is a big improvement.  Silverfast will output high-bit (48-bit) files, but it's a raw output.  You have to do all processing on that file with Silverfast HDR, Photoshop, or somethin

filmscanners: SS4000 - Insight too hot?

2001-10-28 Thread Dave King
I'm using the 4000 for the first time since an initial test to make sure it worked properly. I've been trying Insight, Vuescan and Silverfast 5.1 ai on a Win 98 box. So far all my scans are color negs. I don't really like the Silverfast interface - too many gizmos, and the one scan I tried so f