Janko Belaj
13-Nov-2005, 13:31
First, somewhat long introduction... I'm aware that someone might call me spoiled, but I think that anyone of us is somewhat spoiled when it came to his/hers shots. In the firm where I'm working we have bunch of fine scanners (few pro flatbeds and one drum scanner) and when I need serious scan I'm using one of those, but as I moved to the new location (bigger studio block away) I wont be able to use them all the time. I'm usually scanning (almost) all of my shots at some smaller resolution just for preview. fast scans, dry mounted, without special adjustments. Few dust particles and some newton rings doesn't bother me for that purpose. So, I took out of my basement my old powerlook and attached him to my old G3 (minitower filled almost to the "top"... 3 disks, addon cards...). But several years ago I have decided this old powerhorse is ready for retirement and I used him only for web... learning php and developing my cms script... Now, that job is done, or better to say, I switched everything to my stronger powerbook. I'm too lazy to install OS 9 again so I have installed VueScan and... I'm really disappointed. Even for preview job only. Slow. Clumsy. Strange commands (quality settings like mail-archive in advanced mode?) and some strange "decisions"... It seams to me that I have to restart scanner software for every batch of my negatives... first scan is fine, but the second one is "taking" adjusted levels as starting levels and any other scan is darker and with more limited dynamic range.
And finally, the question: Is such behavior normal or not? If you have similar equipment, what do you use and how do you use it?
And finally, the question: Is such behavior normal or not? If you have similar equipment, what do you use and how do you use it?