[filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

["Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>]

Dave King wrote:

SNIP:
> I will disagree with your assessment of the LS-30 and Vuescan after owning
> that scanner for a few years.  With color negs particularly Vuescan blows
> away what you can get with concurrent versions of NikonScan in terms of
tone
> scale accuracy (in the shadows particularly), and in the absence of
> NikonScan's famous "jaggies".  In terms of real world results,
particularly
> if looking at resulting prints,  I would put the "lowly" LS-30 up against
> better scanners with inferior software if one stays within the resolution
> limits imposed by the LS-30, and expect better results.  More than once
I've
> heard knowledgeable folks say the software is more important than the
> scanner (within reasonable limits).

Dave

I have had the LS30 for years too and have used Vuescan since it was first
developed.  What I meant was that I do not see any future version of Vuescan
that will enable me to get more out of my LS30 than Vuescan does today.

I just worded it badly ;-)

Simon

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