[rollei_list] Re: Scanners
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:06:30 -0800
I did find this, "Vuescan: it's raw output is a gamma 1.0 tiff"
So it may be called RAW but its a TIFF. Are the others RAW or TIFF?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Peter K. <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK. Apologies to Mark. I have never heard of this before. I cannot imagine
> scanning and image to Inacon RAW or whatever. So VueScan creates a RAW file,
> can Photoshop read it as it can a Nikon or Canon Raw?
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> Adobe Camera Raw reads/opens Imacon RAW files. A Canon RAW file is
>> different than a Nikon RAW file and is different than an Imacon RAW file and
>> is different than a RAW file from a Microtek or Nikon scanner, but ACR reads
>> them. There is ABSOLUTELY no difference in data coming off of a camera
>> sensor or a scanner sensor. It is analog pixel data, run through an A/D
>> converter, fixed with PRNU algorithms, and delivered to memory. Where the
>> memory is and what kind it is makes no difference. CF, SD, Firewire/USB to
>> your laptop/desktop, whatever. If you request JPEG, then you allow other
>> camera/scanner firmware/software to muck with it (before you get it),
>> producing a printable compressed file, losing some data in the process.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Peter K. wrote:
>>
>> RAW? You cannot scan RAW files or scan to RAW. Those are proprietary
>> files that a Digital SLR creates and you use Adobe Camera Raw to open,
>> adjust and then save them as JPEG or whatever file you want, except RAW.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> > I tend to mess around rather a lot and change scan settings and
>>> re-scan. I
>>> > could get about 2 scans I was satisfied with per evening. I haven't
>>> scanned
>>> > anything for months but i have my last roll of kodachrome to do...
>>> > Frank
>>>
>>>
>>> Try scanning raw.
>>> Less messing around. But really mainly good if you've kept your Photoshop
>>> chops up through the years. As scanner interfaces and software changes
>>> but
>>> Photoshop is still Photoshop.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>
>>>
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