Sorry - about negative film profiles once again

[seleva]

I have got during last summer vacation 25 rolls of negative films.
Since MiniLab photo printing may not be always accurate or appropriate I also invested in UMAX270 with SilverFast 5.5 Ai.

It was a very big disappointment not to find my favorite Kodak Propfoto 100 (14 rolls) and Superia X-tra 400 films (5 rolls) in NegaFix profiles.

The SilverFast soft itself is very convinuent, nice, good.

However if the following citation from SF tutorial is correct why you are so relactant to include to NegaFix all possible negative profiles?

"We all know that the source of the problem is the "orange mask" and the lack of accurate film profiles. Without such profiles ...... .....we generally find ourselves tweaking the preview scan in an attempt to eliminate its worst effects".

[LSI_Support]

Dear Seleva,
we are doing our best to improve SilverFast in all respects - also in respect of supported NegaFix profiles. As we cannot just buy this profile somewhere and add it to our software, we must also go by priorities, which will sometimes delay one or two things.

[seleva]

Thanks a lot for your kind reply. I appreciate it really.

At present days all the photographic world is passing through an edge, and affordable (say 200-400 USD) digital cameras will soon gain the quality of 35 mm film. It's inevitable. So film manufacturers, from my point of view, should be very eager trying to safe their market positions, at least in Europe or US or Jupan.

One of possible ways is to encourage those photo enthusiasts which are not very fond of the available super-short focus, low-dynamic digitals and who would like keep their analog SLR Nikons or Canons. Together with film scanners available at home. And film manufacturers are those who may be interested in a support of good professional soft for film scanners. Like that SilverFast.

May by it is possible arrange your profile development for NegaFix together with Kodak or AGFA???