[Leica] Scanning software bum-out

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Sounds right to me.  Batch scanning is an option.

Douglas Herr wrote:

>Try upgrading your Vuescan.  It does NOT require any extra dinero to 
>support additional scanners and I believe it now has a batch scanning 
>option.  If you still have the original serial number it costs you nada to 
>ugrade.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
>Sent: Jan 24, 2005 2:09 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] Scanning software bum-out
>
>I want an upgrade.
>
>I had started out with VueScan for chump change trying to get more punch to
>my scanning cycles and batch scanning and as I recall that for every scanner
>you wanted to use it with they wanted a few more extra bucks.
>No batch so I got the Laserscan SE which was like a hundred bucks and it
>turned out to not have batch scanning either.
>It turned out that to upgrade to the AI you couldn't.
>There was no upgrade.
>
>So I bought the full version of AI from scratch for NOT chump change but for
>some real money. Like the coast of a used 50 Elmar collapsible.
>And threw the SE version into digital garbage can. Should have recycled it
>somehow but that truck doesn't come up into these hills.
>
>Turns out all I had was the Lasersoft; Silverfast, what ever it is for my
>Umax PowerLook III. My mighty flatbed with 8x10 transparency adapter and
>1200 dpi which cost me 1500 bucks five years ago and now is worth about 88
>dollars and 88 cents. Or a scanner with about those specs.
>
>I got the Epson Perfection 4870 Photo flatbed this weekend which is 4800
>dpi!!!!?! 800 dpi more than my Nikon Coolscan 5000 film scanner which is
>still pretty much the standard of the film scanning at your desktop
>industry.
>
>I thought I'd spend an extra hundred bucks and get the Silverfast plug in
>for my Nikon.
>No such luck.
>They want another 300.
>I'd have to pay from scratch for the software what amounts to the fourth
>time.
>
>Time to dusk off my darkroom.
>
>Is that how it usually is for scanning software? That for every scanner you
>want to use it with you buy it from scratch?
>
>Oh they were going to give me 15 percent off!
>
>Oh turns out the new upgrade to my Epson perfection 4870 Photo flatbed is
>coming out in a few weeks for the same money as I got this one. Same specs
>same money. Only it will have a full 8x10 transparency adapter not just a
>6x9 inch one. 
>
>I want an upgrade. 
>
>NO ARCHIVE
>
>Hold the anchovies.
>
>
>Mark Rabiner
>Photography
>Portland Oregon
>http://rabinergroup.com/
>
>
>
>
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