Re: filmscanners: SilverFast Upgrade Disaster

["Steven N. Norvich" <snorvich@interaccess.com>]

At 06:24 PM 8/8/01 -0400, you wrote:

> SilverFast has a
> problem with doing an IT8 calibration, at least on a PC.  It 
> gives an error message that says you haven't aligned the frame correctly
> around the IT8 target.  Ian Lyons says it works OK on his Mac. 
> SilverFast is 
> working on the problem and asked me to send them a screen grab just
> before 
> the error message pops up. 

The trick is to leave about a 1 mm extra border inside the Silverfast
recommended
framing.   I was incredibly frustrated with this until I
accidentally figured it out.  I
have and use Silverfast on my Nikon LS4000 and Epson 1680 Professional
Firewire
scanner where it comes bundled.  I have only calibrated the Epson
for reflective scanning
as I use the Nikon for slides.  However a transparency target is
provided for scanning
4x5 transparencies and that may some day be useful.

Best regards,

Steve

Steve Norvich

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