Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan

["Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." <mlidaka@ameritech.net>]

I have to weigh in on the interface - it may not be top-notch graphics design 
with buttons and shortcuts, but it is IMHO extremely functional and easy to 
use.  I don't need the buttons when I have useful tabs and boxes on the tabs.

I was up and running with it within an hour as I recall, and the results have 
(almost) always been excellent (exceptions are exceptional frames - my fault, 
or old film, etc.)

I am happy with the interface as is.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <EdHamrick@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Polaroid Insight vs. Silverfast AI vs. Vuescan


In a message dated 12/4/2001 4:55:46 PM EST, albatros.bee@web.de writes:

> I´d like to add a question: Its true that VueScan has gained a very
>  favorable reputation amongst serious scanner users (I like the results 
too),
>  however almost everybody seems to agree - me included - that the user
>  interface is not only "unpleasing to the eye" but also not very 
confortable.
>  No buttons or shortcuts, no browser boxes for file locations etc etc - it´s
>  a bit like shareware 6 or 7 years ago.

You think it's ugly now - you should have seen it a year ago <smile>.

It's improving a lot more rapidly than you realize.  I just did
a count, and there have been 199 releases since March 1999.
That's an average of one new version every 5 days for almost
three years.

>  So, have you planned to modernize - at a moment when no new important
>  scanner is released - the GUI in the future?

I plan on continuing to improve it with a new version every
3 or 4  days.  I don't plan on revolutionary change, but instead
on evolutionary change.

For instance, I'm very close to adding dialog boxes for
file name selection instead of typing file names.

Regards,
Ed Hamrick