3/15/2023 0 Comments Srdx silverfast![]() ![]() The purpose of scanning software is to digitize paper documents, photographs and transparencies into high-quality image files. And we need these images to be the highest quality possible, with the least amount of dust, dirt or scratches, even when the originals are not in very good shape. We scan at a wide range of resolutions so we can create animated moves. What confuses me with SilverFast 8 is that there are multiple save buttons in different menus, and I gave up experimenting which save function saves which kind of control.As filmmakers and media creators we continually need to convert still images, documents, slides and photographs into digital format. ![]() Thanks for your helpful advice here - one problem with SilverFast is its fairly poor documentation when it comes to this kind of questions. The IR SRD seems to work better for dust and simple scratches.i just leave it on detection 20 i found a setting of 18, 3 seemed to work well for usual film handling scratches The SRDx tool works well for scratches provided one makes a mask, otherwise it will blur all over the place. I can save the settings for each session.so what i do is setup the path / size / DPI etc and hit save on the bottom left of that menu box.and can recall it easily Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… SilverFast in its Kodachrome-mode can handle this reasonably well, but VueScan cannot. This is due to the fact, that in Kodachrome the IR-channel also contains a strong signal from the scene and not only the scratches. Far from true! VueScan is correcting all over the place in all dark areas. You would expect to see only the scratches. But this is attributed to a lack of documentation!Īs far as dust removal of VueScan for Kodachrome is concerned, EH confirmed to me that the markings do not indicate all pixels that are modified! I subtracted an image without scratch removal from one with scratch removal. So you do not have to cancel each scan individually. Yes you can cancel a batch job by pressing ALT + cancel! This kills all jobs in the queue. There are, however, also disadvantages with that. The frame settings come into action with every frame command issued and set the tools to the values they had when you save the frame settings. These may solve some of the problems you have with SF resetting everything to their defaults. Also the frame settings reset the path to the default, which does not make sense. ![]() Same is true for the logarithmic display of the histogram (which really is not a log display). Also if I set the histogram to separate, it falls back to additive if I open the next image. I agree that it is annoying that if you load the next image into HDR the settings for file format, path are reset to the default values. But I would assume, that the behaviour of the two SFs is identical. I can mainly talk about SF HDR, since I use Ai just for scanning into the HDR format. I wonder that this was overlooked when the program was made since it likely happens often for everyone. Other cumbersome thing is that you can't easily cancel a once started batch scan - if you have 15 frames of 35 mm negatives preselected and realize that you have to make a change after the process has started, you have to cancel each of the 15 selected batch scan modules separately and hitting cancel to scan for each frame. I always have to re-enter the preferred scan resolution, the folder where I want to have the images saved to name a few. What annoys me most with SilverFast after lots of scanning with it is that every time I switch to either color to B&W or negative to positive (or vice versa) or to a different frame size, the program resets everything. I find the icons often not intuitive at all what they mean or can do. Otherwise SilverFast is a good program IMO after you get used to it and know how to avoid over-complication within the main menu window. I often like especially B&W results better directly out of the box with the Epson software compared to SilverFast 8 SE. My workaround is to select each medium format manually in the preview RAW view and then have it scanned - it works well. I didn't try 4x5" sized negatives since - not sure if the thumbnail view works here. Now there is another annoying bug: for images sized 6圆 or 4x4, the thumbnail view does not work because the software does not correctly recognize the frames in the preview view anymore. The Epson scan software didn't work for a while on PCs after MS enforced another cumbersome Win10 update in April, but in July Epson released a new driver version for the scanner which allowed to work with the Epson software again. After scanning for a while now (see my earlier comments in this thread) I found myself more often using the Epson scan software with the V850 scanner instead of SilverFast. ![]()
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