newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

couldn't I just as well take the raw, high-bit scan into photoshop and do the processing in this, my standard environment? Isn't the actual scanning process just the same, how ever the adjustments of the scanning software are set? (eg. shadow detail: is it not solely dependant of the maximum dens

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

g the raw scans are as good as the scanner can do. So, who agrees? Who thinks I'm nuts? And why? Steve - Original Message - From: "andi albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: newbie question: what is

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

In a message dated 10/8/2000 3:36:35 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think this scanning model is dead. Now that I can get raw 16 bit data into > Photoshop, scanning software must be better than Photoshop to be useful. Exactly - this is why VueScan doesn't have (and doesn't need) curves.

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

Hi Ed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The scanner software also needs to either transform the color data > to a known color space or embed the color space of the scanner > into the tiff file holding the raw scan data. Do you know, or need to know, the peak response of the RGB filters used in the CC

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

In a message dated 10/9/2000 5:59:36 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Do you know, or need to know, the peak response of the RGB filters used in > the CCD and their passband characteristics, coupled with the lamp output, for > this Ed? No, I don't use CCD specs in calibrating the scanners

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

> This is also why SilverFast is obsolete. It was written with a > distinct scanner model in mind - download curves to the scanner > to map 10-bit or 12-bit data to 8-bit data inside the scanner. > Nowdays, good scanners can return the full bit depth to the > scanner program, and scanner programs

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

on 8/10/00 1:49 pm, andi albert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > couldn't I just as well take the raw, high-bit scan into photoshop and do > the processing in this, my standard environment? > > Isn't the actual scanning process just the same, how ever the adjustments of > the scanning software are

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

In a message dated 10/10/2000 8:53:55 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > This is also why SilverFast is obsolete. It was written with a > > distinct scanner model in mind - download curves to the scanner > > to map 10-bit or 12-bit data to 8-bit data inside the scanner. > > Nowdays, good s

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

Tony Sleep wrote: > > OO Ed, you bitch!!! ;) > I'm reporting this to the list owner... really, such language! ;-) Art The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk To resign,

Re: newbie question: what is scanner software needed for?

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