LaserSoft Imaging

Hello,
Has anyone had any experience doing high quality B&W scans with this software? It seems geared more towards color, and unfortunately the majority of material we scan is B&W. Our scans would need to be fairly good quality as there is the possibility that they could be used for publishing, etc. Also, does SF offer institutional discounts to non-profit organizations such as museums? Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Good morning,

Universities and similar official institutions get a discount of 20% on the prices if they mention the discount on their order and send or fax us the order on official paper.

Theda

Dear polardano

we've got quite a lot of customers using SilverFast scanning software solutions for exactly your purpose to achieve superior results.

SilverFast certainly delivers high quality scans, both color and black-and-white.

Kind regards
Sonny Noack
- tech support, LSI AG -

Hi there,

I figured rather than opening some new topic, I will post in here.

What are good settings recommended by Silverfast for Black and White Negative Scanning?

I am scanning mainly Ilford Delta 100 and I seem to get good (visual) results with the 16bit Greyscale. The 48 bit color mode (though I'd like to have more data than less) seems really dark (at least in the preview window).

In any case, I would really appreciate some advice on this.

Hanseatische Gruesse von der sonnigen US Westkueste,

Jan

Dear objectO,

as always it depends since an anlogue black&white print is not exactly greyscale either. If you really just want to scan greyscale than obv a 16-bit greyscale scan would be your best choice. For archival and optimum reproduction purposes I scan my b&W negatives in 48-bit HDR mode and save them in JPEG2000 with lossless compression. Then I will do a so called offline b&w conversion in DC-Pro Studio with the help of Negafix. There is a profile available for the Ilford Delta 100.

Hope this helps,

Jan