I made the change to VueScan...

[renes]

Thanks Ken.

BTW, scanning Adox 25 I do not any differences in quality between scanning in color 48 bit (green channel) and gray 16 bit.

[Ed Richards]

Another nice feature of Vuescan: the program holds the raw scan data in memory after the scan. You can change the settings and just resave the image. Sometimes I save more than one version and see which looks best in PS. If your scanner supports it, Vuescan will also take a second sample at each point with a different exposure, then combine them for better dynamic range.

[ROL]

FWIW I recently retried Vuescan. I gave up on it 5-6 years ago in favour of Silverfast and BOY has it grown up as software! I was amazed.

Same here. Timely thread for me. I'm primarily interested in keeping my Polaroid SprintScan (120) alive, even though I almost never use it – or my outdated version of at best poorly understood and under-utilized Silverfast. It needs to be upgraded (again! ) to work a recent major computer upgrade (iMac 27") from an old G5. VueScan again holds promise as it seems to still support the SprintScan and a much easier to understand interface. I won't know for sure until I can acquire the Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 to Firewire 400 connections. Otherwise, the iMac itself seems to have basic scanner software onboard for my other printer/scanners and Epson 4990. VueScan appears to be a somewhat more "professional" solution as well, when needed.

[Preston]

Vue Scan has been a workhorse for me, and litterally saved me. I used either Microtek's Scan Wizard or Silverfast with my 1800f until I upgraded to Win-7 64 bit. Neither Microtek or Lasersoft had updated 64 bit drivers for my Microtek scanner, so without Vue Scan I'd have been dead in the water.

I appreciate that Ed continues to make improvements to Vue Scan and also that he hasn't forgotten those of us who use legacy scanners.

--P

[jkathy]

I hope to get an advice from someone. I am scanning old pictures with VueScan to Raw (DNG). When I zoom the photo it looks horrible (squared). Possible I am doing something wrong with setting.

Actually I also scanned into Tiff format and it is the same result.



Here is a sample in tiff format http://rghost.net/53789797

Thank you very much.

[pasiasty]

it looks like lossy compression (I know there should be none...)

[pasiasty]

...and it shows 8-bit depth
maybe you save from pre-view scan?

[jkathy]

Thank, you pasiasty. It was just a preview. The scan was 1200 PPi. I already bought a new scanner. It has different settings. Works fine.