White tones, or pure black.) The right slider is actually past the end of the histogram.įinally, we can adjust the Gamma setting back to normal, namely 1.0. Photographs are not required to contain pure Show the high values naturally, with no clipping or unnatural loss of texture.

The right-side setting is light enough to We haveĪdjusted the Input settings so that the dark values on the left side, are just darkĮnough to render the clear film edge as black - but no darker. We have corrected the default Output settings. I recently installed a Quadro M4000 card which runs smoothly with the nVidia web drivers and with 8GB and 10-bit colour will last me a long time provided it doesn't break down, in which case I will just buy another old card.Correct the EPSON Histogram Before Scanning And there are lots of not so ancient but not new cards around that are interesting to use as well. For that you can keep an old card in a a slot in the computer or lying around somewhere and install as necessary. Just on the point raised by video cards, there is no problem to run modern cards in these machines if you are ok with losing the boot screen. It is also possible to install current versions of MacOS on Mac Pros 3,1-5,1 (see this guide, which also covers anything else one may wish to know about how to keep these wonderful machines running). I have also hooked my X1 up to my 2013 Macbook Pro using two adapters which worked perfectly.

I have no intention of upgrading beyond this. If you're ok with buying a computer specifically for this task and have the room I recommend an older Intel-based Mac Pro which can be had for very reasonable money these days. I run my X1 on an Early 2008 Mac Pro (3,1) with El Capitan without any problems.

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