I have had to deal with a number of programs designed to do the minimum with strange notions of what the mac interface is all about. These packages tend to come from hardware manufacturers selling expensive hardware to mac users - like Nikon Scan, and Canons Drivers for the Canon 9000 F Scanner. Argh. I finally invested the dollars in this software and am very happy to report that it really does work well... If the hardware manufacturers really don't want to invest the effort to do the programs right, then they should invest in software such as this. One very nice aspect of using VueScan is that I now have a unified user interface for both scanners (A slide Scanner L-50, and a platen Scanner - Canon)... This alone would be worth the money, but when you take into account that vuescan, by nearly all accounts, is vastly superior to these 'OEM' packages, well - its a slamdunk... I wish I didn't have to spend the money - but in this case, its worth it.


Also, I had purchased Ai Silverscan a while ago, and while it is a very capable program; it is very expensive, has a ridiculous model of having to buy one program for each scanner, and is no where near as easy to use as VueScan. I'm sure the Pro buffs will claim that it does some esoteric thing better, but at this point, I'm just interested in finishing my slide scanning project, which has been delayed for near ever with Nikon Driver foo-bar. The fact that this program also handles the Canon Platen Scanner is a bonus.

Thanks Hamrick.

Dan P