Nei1 Posted March 15, 2008 Share #21 Posted March 15, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks Steve.Again enjoy your site esp PAW,what pressure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Hi Nei1, Take a look here Nikon Scan. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
hlockwood Posted March 15, 2008 Share #22 Posted March 15, 2008 Very nice shots, innerimager. What film did you use? I've been using the 4000ED for years. Every once in a while I retry Vuescan, but I always come back to NikonScan. I could never get sufficiently past the VS interface to yield the scans that I get with NS. Harry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share #23 Posted March 15, 2008 Very nice shots, innerimager. What film did you use? I've been using the 4000ED for years. Every once in a while I retry Vuescan, but I always come back to NikonScan. I could never get sufficiently past the VS interface to yield the scans that I get with NS. Harry Thanks Harry. That's Ilford XP2 super, pretty much all I use. Love it. And after a long silence, I'm surprised to see how many do use Nikon Scan over Vuescan! best...Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
el.nino Posted March 15, 2008 Share #24 Posted March 15, 2008 Vuescan can do multi-pass scans with the Coolscan V. The 5000ED has the better dynamic range, so if money's not an issue I'd go for that one. Also the 5000ED allows the scanning of an entire film and multiple slides using the appropriate adaptors. so can silverfast, but that's only a software-based multi-pass scan. it just scans with to or more different exposures and then merges those images. the 5000ED can do hardwarebased multipass-scans. so every line is scaned twice or more and not the entire picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted March 15, 2008 Share #25 Posted March 15, 2008 Silverfast: for slides and bnw Vuescan: for Colour negs Gave up on Nikon Scan most new lenses CV, Zeiss and Leica are fairly high contrast ( DSLs even more so). Dedicated PP applications give one more control as well as the capacity to burn contrast in specific areas of the image Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RITskellar Posted March 15, 2008 Share #26 Posted March 15, 2008 Nikon Scan is much easier to use, at least for me, who wants decent scans without a big learning curve. I have the Super Coolscan 9000. I'm fairly accomplished in Photoshop, so post-processing after scanning is more intuitive for me. I guess I'm willing to give up a little control (perhaps quality too) in scanning for greater ease of use. I'm now just (frustratingly) waiting for Nikon Scan to update to properly work with Mac 10.5 Leopard on Intel. I have not tried VueScan yet, but am intrigued by some of your experiences. By the way, I have a latest version (6.5) Silverfast Ai Studio (multi-scan) for sale that I purchased a couple months ago. See A Good Life Sale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted March 15, 2008 Share #27 Posted March 15, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Preferring the ease of use options I find a bit counter productive, a bit on the she will be all right side .... one learnt scanning it all gets pretty easy. I have a dedicated computer( one of the older discards) for scanning, and just get on with other things elsewhere ......even batch scan while pulling weeds in the garden Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 15, 2008 Share #28 Posted March 15, 2008 After reading this thread, I tried Nikon Scan again today. Thank goodness for Vuescan, is all I can say Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share #29 Posted March 15, 2008 Thank goodness for Vuescan, is all I can say Care to expand on that at all Andy? ;>) best...Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 16, 2008 Share #30 Posted March 16, 2008 The additional functionality that Vuescan provides is invaluable. Sure, it needs to be learned, but IMHO, like most things in life, the more you put in, the more you get out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipkeston Posted March 22, 2008 Share #31 Posted March 22, 2008 Hi. I've been in this situation. I agree nikon scan does a great job on most anything out of the box. But you have to realize both scan and post processes a raw file for you unless you scan raw only. You can either let the software like vuescan or nikonscan do it, or you can do it better yourself in PS, LR, A2 etc. It's the difference between giving your lab b/w to develop and you developing it yourself. From what I've learned recently, the only hardware control you have is exposure. If you lock exposure before blacks clip on a negative, then you'll have a good raw file. Then typically the scanning software plays with levels and other settings to give you a result. Nikonscan does a good job of adjusting these straight away. Vuescan treats you very seriously and lets you take care of that yourself if you scan a raw file. Scanning raw means you scan the whole surface, no cropping, and you only adjust the exposure for the film you're using and nothing else. That's right, all those vuescan profiles and settings are irrelevant post processing settings you don't need. I've found that I get better results when I can adjust the levels and curves from a raw file instead of nikon or the vuescan software doing it for me. ... and nikon scan is rubbish for not having support for 64bit vista, not to mention its bad case of ADHD in osx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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