Over the last four days we've been getting more familiar with the latest version of Kodak's new software. We're very impressed and noticed some major changes in the way the scanner / software combination operates.
As photos are fed through the image is automatically rotated. This means if you put in a photo the "right" way round it will instantly appear in the thumbnails looking upside down. It's only a small matter to turn the batch the best way round and I've only forgotten to do this a couple of times. In practice this goes a long way to overcome the partial banding we'd been experiencing in areas of blue sky. Kodak's suggestion was that these shots should be fed in inverted, and it worked. Now all photos are fed in inverted and the software rotates it instantly. Certainly we haven't noticed sky banding this week.
The auto rotate function was one we really felt excited about. So we've been playing with it and it works pretty well. Today we had a great photo of what looked like a French chateau, with its reflection gently shimmering in a lake. It was (almost literally) a mirror image. I was greatly impressed that the new software got it right even though I fed the photo in all ways round. That's a big tick to Kodak.
Just to end, a subjective thought. We continue to use the batch re-touching function and I think it produces a better result than before. It would be difficult to prove, but I have been pleased with the results we've been getting this week.
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