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

[Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>]

2001-12-04-17:54:39 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.:
> 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.

I don't pine for fancy UI gewgaws either -- hell, I'd probably be
entirely happy with a mostly command-line scanning infrastructure.
The one thing I'd love to see corrected is that in my admittedly
limited tenure with Vuescan, I haven't yet seen an error message.

I've seen things not work, I've seen things like the device menu
sometimes not having entries, and I haven't known what to do except to
apply common-sense guesswork and trial and error until whatever
condition is peeving the program (could be a missing subdirectory,
could be bad permissions, could be an un-loaded SCSI driver) allows it
to function.  I'd love some clues to point me vaguely in the direction
I need to be looking in.

Maybe this is a special feature of the Linux version, though -- I
haven't tried the others.

Makes lovely scans, though (and I don't think I'd be making *any*
scans on Linux without it) once you propitiate it.