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Hamrick Updates VueScan To Support OpticFilm 135
29 March 2016
Earlier today Ed Hamrick updated VueScan, his third-party scanning solution, to support the Plustek OpticFilm 135. Previously the only software that could drive the OpticFilm 135 was Plustek's own QuickScan Plus.
VueScan. OpticFilm 135 support added.
Our ongoing OpticFilm 135 review will include a review of the VueScan 9.5.43 solution following our experiences with QuickScan Plus.
While QuickScan Plus is available for both OS X and Windows, Plustek told us that the two versions are not equivalent under the hood. Our own experience with QuickScan Plus on OS X was that it was unable to deliver a usable scan.
QuickScan Plus consistently and significantly overexposed negative film (both color and black-and-white) while positives were slightly underexposed, losing shadow detail.
QuickScan Plus consistently and significantly overexposed negative film (both color and black-and-white) while positives were slightly underexposed, losing shadow detail.
Windows users, apparently, did not see the same results. We were unable to test on Windows ourselves because our Windows systems did not meet the minimum requirements of QuickScan Plus.
In the course of our testing, we did ask both our contact at Plustek and Hamrick about supporting the OpticFilm 135 on VueScan. While initial discussions were positive, Plustek didn't make the scanner available to Hamrick. He subsequently acquired one himself last week and updated VueScan in just a few hours yesterday.
The current version of VueScan doesn't include IT8 calibration but Hamrick recommends setting the
Color | Color Balanceto eitherWhite BalanceorAuto Levelson the Mac.Even at that, though, this is a significant development for OpticFilm 135 users who appreciate multi-exposure scans and scans optimized for various film emulsions. We've installed it and will be testing it ourselves shortly.
More to come, as we like to say around here....