Crazy I know but even crazier I also shoot pinhole cameras too.It's all good for me. I started this way, own tons of Canon gear but nowadays shoot mainly Leica and MF ( Rolleis, Mamiya and Fuji ) analog. I've read a couple of your posts and it seems like your going to film for some of your work. For 99% of my work wet scans provided the best/most economical scans you can get at home. If a critical scan is needed I wet-scan, or if wanting the very best. With the options you have for at home scanning the very best is wet-mounting. This is a very expensive replacement for such a easily reproducible incident. In addition the anti-Newtonian glass is treated with acid to produce the surface and will scratch if you look at it sideways. I would avoid BetterScaning carriers as the anti-Newtonian glass is rather a hassle and the returns are minimal over the standard OEM film carriers. I develop, scan for less critical projects or image culling, and enlarge for print all at home. I currently run the V800 with Silverfast AI and it is superb IMHO. If you're not interested in editing your flow heavily then VueScan is perfectly fine. Of the two competing software I prefer Silverfast for more involved work flows. The work flawlessly on both platforms with good drivers. I have used VueScan, Silverfast AI, and Silverfast SE plus. Try a TWAIN scan program to find the best match. If you're using a new or newish mac your probably running into driver issues. the V600 was, I think was original to 2009 and very dated. The issue that your having with Silverfast is the outdated TWAIN driver. I found that Epson now has a 64 bit driver for my Epson V600.Im installing that on the Mac Pro, and will try VueScan trial to see how it and epson scan does.Īn interesting tidbit, it appears the Epson 2 driver, etc.does not have ICE working, but if you download it, they will give you a version of SilverFast SE edition free if you enter in your Epson serial number. The description above mentioning multiple passes, I'm hoping that this is similar to the multiple exposure passes the SF does.neat trick. I'm going to try out the VueScan stuff tomorrow.one thing I'm not going to like as much, is that instead of being able to use your mouse to directly move the framing lines, it appears you have to use a slider on the control panel to move them, seems a pain. I REALLY want to like it.I love the large feature set.but it just is NOT stable in the least from what I've found. The NegaFix module in SF is amazing when you get the framing set right, you just tell it what type film you have and looks GREAT on inversion. There is a non-IR scratch and dust fix that does work. The IR version of the scratch and dust doesn't work with B&W film.only color film. If you try to scan a frame with some bare negative outside, the image fixing doesn't work properly. There are a few little things I found out on YouTube videos, etc.like with the doesn't work right unless your entire image is in the frame. Silverfast I've done the three slide IT8 calibration with my scanner, Vuefast I have not.Īlso for the black/white balance, is there a color picker in Vuescan? Just seems like manual slider bars and no way to base it off the original image.Well, if you're familiar with Photoshop, the most of the controls seem similar.but figuring out some things takes a bit of time trying, using and pushing buttons to see what they do, but it isn't rocket surgery. I realize both photos still need more work, but I'm not sure why the Silverfast one is so much worse to start with. Silverfast seems good, has a nice modern interface and is user friendly so I'd like to keep with it (plus it's free with my scanner) but at the moment I'm a bit overwhelmed on where to go from here, what adjustments to make, how to make it better. Vuescan does a much better job scanning a slide, although the colors aren't as good the level of detail is much better wheras Silverfast has better color reproduction but much worse level of detail. 2) Discontinued hardware + current OS Ai Studio. The pattern seems to be: 1) Current hardware + OS SilverFast 8 SE or Ai Studio. I'm not getting the quality I expect out of Silverfast. The more expensive pro versions of Silverfast are supported for longer so this is why many older scanners will have only a Pro version of Silverfast available for sale.
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