----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard" <howard.leigh111@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Question about Scanning > I agree that you cannot, with Epson flat bed scanners, use Digital Ice > on B&W negatives. > I haven't bothered with Silverfast or Vuescan. The latter did not > appear, to my eyes, to give significantly better results compared to > Epson's own software. However many people claim Vuescan is outstandingly > better! thats cool, what works, works :) One of the pluses for Vuescan is exporting in RAW (which does NOT mean greater dynamic range, rather it means a greater bit depth) also access to the hardware without manufacturer software getting in the way so restrictive clipping/curves can be eliminated. it also gives you multipass scanning k
