A few choice examples:Īnyone who primarly does reflective scans can buy a good printer/scanner/copier for $100, and anyone still scanning film can use the Epson V700 to do this Now, Lasersoft sure aren’t perfect, but if you’re going to start slinging mud, you’d better make sure of your target. Hamrick goes on to pick apart various aspects of Silverfast, and Lasersoft. Frankly, these people are not Silverfast’s customer base. Hamrick then follows up with a gratuitous analysis of LaserSoft’s “problems” and an “unedited list” of more than 1000 largely illiterate one-liner comments of converts to Vuescan, the majority of which seem to have very little clue of what they’re talking about - and Hamrick knows it. It promotes its own wares, sometimes well, sometimes less so, but it never, ever rubbishes the competition. Now, as far as I know, LaserSoft has never engaged in such tactics.
All this under the strawman banner “Why is LaserSoft struggling ?” This is already sounding ethically dubious, and possibly worse, but then he goes on to roundly rip Silverfast to pieces, while saying what a nice guy Karl-Heinz Zahorsky, the CEO and founder of LaserSoft is.
This was from Ed Hamrick, of Hamrick Software, author of Vuescan, offering Silverfast users a free upgrade to Vuescan Pro if they promise never to use Silverfast again and to send him their Silverfast serial number. Oh, and you might also like to see Ed’s original riposte.Įarlier today, I came across a piece of negative marketing of a type which always irritates me. And if your workflow would be to take uncorrected linear gamma scans direct into Photoshop, for some reason Vuescan’s 48bit output is much more malleable than Silverfast’s 48bit “HDR”. I took some time to understand it better, I managed to calibrate it, and when my scanner, or Silverfast, causes problems, it’s always useful to be able to fall back on Vuescan for issue solving. Ed & I had an email conversation and it all ended up perfectly amicable even if we agreed to disagree. Well, enjoy, but please note it is water well under the bridge, indeed we can’t even see the bridge any more. Maybe you’ve come here to observe a bit of wild-eyed flaming of Ed Hamrick and Vuescan. I’m tempted to take it down, but I’ll leave it for historical interest. August 2014: Apparently this post is the most popular on my site.
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