Silverfast Ai 6 USELESS for a Nikon 8000ED

[MM]

Having tested your software for a short while (version 6 for Nikon 8000ED), I have to say I'm very pleased with its performance. Scanning negatives gives great results, even when the default settings are used. Huge improvement over the original Nikon software. Unfortunately, your software is useless for a user who scans 6x6, 6x7, and 6x9 film on a Nikon 8000ED. I've already contacted the US tech support regarding this issue, but was asked to post here as well. I cannot believe that people who test the software prior its release could have missed the fact that there is no adjustment for the film strip offset. How do they expect people to center an image so that a full frame is scanned and not just a portion. The scanner does not know where an actual frame starts or ends, spaces between frames vary greatly (known fact for medium format film) and there has to be a way for the user to adjust for this. Nikon software has this feature, your own manual shows a button that controls this, but unfortunately the button does not exist in the release for the scanner I own. Could you please let me know when the problem might be addressed and corrected. I have also noticed one other odd thing and that is a constant disk activity that starts as soon as the plug-in is launched, even when no scanning is being performed. I let the software just sit for as long as 30 minutes with nothing being done and the pointer constantly flashes changing to a watch and the hard disk is constantly writing. Do you have any idea what might be causing this? (Mac OS9.1)

[LSI_Support]

We have a fix for the LS8000 on our Download site:

6.0.1r25(Mac) / r19(Win)

[pedroboni]

I downloaded the latest SilverFast 6 Windows version (r19), uninstalled NikonScan and SilverFast, reinstalled NikonScan and the latest SilverFast Windows version. The problem of film strip offset remained the same. As a last trial I uninstalled NikonScan again and suddenly the problem was solved. Up to now I only tried it with 645 transparencies but I'm confident that it will work with the other formats as well. So there seems to be a conflict between the NikonScan and SilverFast software. Anybody who does not absolutely need the Nikon software should try to uninstall it to check if the problem is solved. Hope this is of help.
Best regards,
Peter