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Re: filmscanners: Which Buggy Software?
You're in Dan Margulis's camp, then? He maintains (and I have no opinion
one way or the other) that 16-bit color are not necessary.
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "rafeb" <rafeb@channel1.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Which Buggy Software?
| At 10:13 AM 7/14/01 +1000, Rob wrote:
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| >Nikonscan 3.1 seems to work fine on my system, no crashes. Having said
that
| >I don't use it because the scans come out posterised in comparison to
| >Vuescan output because Nikonscan only works with 8 bits of data from the
| >LS30. This shouldn't be an issue with newer Nikon scanners.
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| I've been making scans in 24-bit color for years, on
| about 3 or 4 different film scanners. I don't use
| the 48-bit color mode, ever, even on the 8000.
|
| No posterization. I suspect there's another reason
| for the posterization you're seeing.
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| rafe b.
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