![]() ![]() It's certainly cheap enough to buy if you decide you like it. If you're really unhappy with the Epson software, I'd suggest downloading VueScan just to see if you're more comfortable with its user interface. ![]() I'm not sure what you understood from Ed Hamrick about there not being a trial version - you can download VueScan free to try it before you buy, although the raw file feature is available only in the "Professional" version, which you do have to pay for. And if you happen to find the tools in ACR easier to use, then as Marko points out, you can load ordinary TIFF files into ACR too you don't need a raw file. ![]() At any rate, raw per se won't make color correction or exposure correction any easier if anything, it will be more complicated. But I've never had any luck with the procedure Colin describes, and so far I've found it easier, and gotten better results, just to use VueScan's standard TIFF output. See, for example, Colin Jago's discussion here on using raw mode for scanning B&W negatives. That said, some users find that starting with the raw scanner output makes it easier to get a full tonal scale out of a negative. But it's still a lot closer to a recognizable picture than a DSLR raw file from a camera with a Bayer-matrix sensor, where lots of information needs to be reconstructed. What makes "raw" output from VueScan different from TIFF output is that it skips the pretty severe curve adjustment needed to make the output look more like a standard tonal curve. So far, the 'multi exposure' option is working the best to get some more details in the shadows, but I would like to be able to control the scanner exposure manually if. Some of the slides are underexposed and I'm trying various things to increase the scanner exposure. Coming from the digital SLR world, a RAW file to me means lots and lots of data!A 16-bit TIFF file out of any scanner also has lots and lots of data. I'm scanning some 35mm slides using VueScan and a Plustek 8200i scanner. ![]()
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