First results make me wonder what I'm doing wrong

[erjee]

After trying out all the options in SF6, I have worked a whole day on scanning one negative with my Nikon LS40. It's an old negative, about 25 years, with some scratches and a lot of dust on it. I had made a scan via Nikon Scan 3.1 and used the digital ICE and GEm, results were pretty good: natural colours, relatively not many scratches remained and still a sharp scan. After that I tries with SF6, but all I got was too many reds, and still a lot of scratches and dust.
I started with using the standard options, auto-adjusting, set the highlights and shadows and some midtones. But nevertheless the result is disappointing to me. I know SF6 must be better than Nikon Scan 3.1. but after trying now for a few days I am really stuck: what must I do.
I use the workflow as suggested in the manual and know I have to be patient. Is adjusting the scanresolution to a greater number dpi an option or is this just a waist of harddiskspace?
Please help me out.

[LSI_Sperling_old]

Dear erjee -
If you like to scan old negatives with scratches you have two possibilities:
1. using SilverFast: make a prescan and all the settings you like - at least you open our SRD ( similar to ICE ) and here you can remove the dust and scratches - over the whole picture or only inside a mask. With SilverFast you have also the possibility to choose, which " scratch " or " dust " you like to remove. Close the SRD and scan the picture ( don?t change any settings or you have to open the SRD once more!! )

2. using NikonScan: with ICE and make a 48 bit raw data file. Afterwards you work on it with the SilverFast HDR version. But ICE will only work on the whole picture.

with regards

Christoph