[rollei_list] Re: Scanners

  • From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:26:21 -0500

Hi Mark,

> > I don't know what he (Ed Hamrick, author of Vuescan) is
> referring to there,
> > but it's simply wrong, unless it's in some other context.  Raw
> data has been
> > around LONG before Vuescan, and probably before Ed had any
> interest in writing
> > scanner software.
> >
> > It's almost silly to think that it's somehow "special" to get
> at the raw data.
> > The scanner actually has to purposely not support raw data, vs,
> have embedded
> > hardware and firmware to process the raw data to some
> "standard" image file
> > format.
> >
> > Raw files were also termed by some "HDR" for High Dynamic Range
> a ways back.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin
> >
>
>
> Silverfast has been doing raw for years.

I'm talking long before Silverfast...  Any editing software on a PC or Mac
is relatively new compared to the industry.  Keeping in mind that I've been
doing this since the 70's...

Regards,

Austin
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