[rollei_list] Re: Scanners

  • From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:43:09 -0500

> Hi Stephen,
>  
> 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.


Mark William Rabiner



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