Then you upgrade your operating system or change hardware and suddenly your scanner isn't supported by the manufacturer anymore. Your competition has an inside angle.įor a while, anyway. This review (illustrated at ) concentrates on film scanning because that's what we did, but it also covers some flatbed features.įlatbed or film, you can't buy a scanner without scanner software. The current version with over 100,000 users runs on Linux, Macintosh and Windows and supports over 400 flatbed and film scanners and 109 digital camera raw formats.Īnd how does Ed have time to develop this frequently updated program? No phone calls and no meetings, that's how. Then he bought a Nikon LS-30 scanner and VueScan was born. He called it VueSmart and gave it away with VuePrint. Legend has it he bought a Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart scanner and was so disappointed with its software that he wrote his own.

He quit his job at Boeing to work on an Atari painting program called Leonardo da Video and five years later wrote a JPEG viewer called VuePrint.Īt NASA he got into satellite images but he'd already developed an interest in photography, inspired by his father. He worked at NASA/JPL while attending California Institute of Technology, dabbling in the Voyager project. Ed.Įd learned FORTRAN on a CDC mainframe when he was 15. It's been doing favors for scanners for years now, thanks to the efforts of one guy. Use something whose artful design requires no cosmetics. 'Do yourself a favor,' we advised ourselves.

But which click led where made us feel like we were playing Myst IV, not scanning slides. With a roll of color negatives to scan, we were staring at our screen trying once again to decipher the scanner manufacturer's array of icons. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter DO YOURSELF A FAVOR The VueScan Solution By MIKE PASINI

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