Evaluating Silverfast

[olliebear]

I just spent the last 2 days evaluating the Silverfast software for my Nikon coolscan V5 and Mac OSX 10.3.

I've tried numerous settings and different slides but I just can't produce a scan that even comes close to the quality of a standard Nikon scan.

To start with on the standard settings the scan and scan preview are substantially darker than the original slide or a scan produced by Nikon scan. Midtones are near black and all detail is lost.

Secondly Photoshop (CS) refuses to recognise the colour profile from silverfast. I get warning box saying the profile is invalid and will be ignored. I've tried numerous different colour settings in both Photoshop and silver fast with no effect.

I was most interested in the multi-exposure function but testing numerous slides on the 16 times setting just produces a slightly softer image. There isn't enough of a noise reduction to warrant the 25 minute scan time.

I don't know if any of these issues are resolvable. I tried to look at the video guides and documentation but both of these refused to install. At which point I gave up.

I don't have any such issues with the Nikon software. I just put my slide in and scan with all the 'help' turned off. Sometimes a 0.2 of a stop increase on the analog gain or ICE to get rid of dust helps but thats it. I think I'll stick with that.

Olliebear

[LSI_Noack]

Dear olliebear

I just retested the issues described and couldn't find any longer present in the latest version of SilverFast, i.e. release 6.5.5r1.

I suggest you want to download and install the latest update release of your version of SilverFast from our website. You might experience that this already does solve your problem.

If not, please don't hesitate to contact support: https://www.silverfast.com/problemreport/en.html
How to help support staff to help you: https://www.silverfast.com/faq/1058/en.html
Thank you in anticipation of your kind co-operation.

Best regards
Sonny Noack
- Manager Technical Support, LaserSoft Imaging AG -