LaserSoft Imaging

I have just bought an Epson V700 scanner with Silverfast SE. I know very little about scanning or photos but technically competent to learn. My initial consideration is what strategy to adopt for scanning old 35mm negatives.

At the time of scanning for archive I do not know if I will ever produce a print copy but would like a photo copy in my photo library and the albums I create.

I think I would like to just scan and archive the negatives, leaving any subsequent work of creating print format and correction until I have learnt more about the subject. But then I read that some correction is best done at the time of scan with the hardware still in place.

I doubt any of my old family 35mm photos are 'high standard' photographic quality but should become part of my photo library, I use Apple Aperture on my high end iMAC with max memory, Ramdisk and CPU speed.

I have bought the Silverfast SE Book, but a few pointers of experienced users or what would be best in my circumstances would be welcome. e.g. what scanning resolution to use and what file format to save. Tiff files get rather large.

Many thank

Gally

Dear Gally,

You will always need to set the highlights and shadows during scanning.
This can easily be done using the automatic image adjustment (e.g. Auto CCR).
The infrared scratch and dust removal iSRD and MultiExposure are also hardware functions which need to be executed during the scan.


Kind regards,
Arne Ketelhohn.