#SILVERFAST HDR SPEED UP TRIAL#

And the LaserSoft website ( has a lot of video and instructional documents to support new users, as well as support for anyone with technical problems. But it is sequentially logical and perceptually predictable to use, so a comfortable workflow and control of results can be acquired rapidly.

#SILVERFAST HDR SPEED UP TRIAL#

But with silver-based black-and-white film scanning, the response may be unexpected depending on the developer used, so I have found trial mix and match settings may result in a good adjustment for scan preview adjustment.įor scan novices, LaserSoft’s SilverFast may seem like a lot to learn, even the simplest SE version which I recommend for beginners. And of course negatives also include black and white, both silver based and chromogenics processed in C-41 some of which have film terms. These can be set as “other” and adjusted dynamically with the slider to obtain a balanced interpretation. And there are many films sold, a lot of old brands, and especially store brands made by Agfa, 3M, and Konica for which there are no existing film terms. However, differences in processing can alter the effectiveness of film terms so there is a slider to adjust the balance of effect. If you are scanning color negatives, selecting “negative” in the General pane will activate NegaFix, a SilverFast dialog that has a selection set of drop-downs for manufacturer, brand, and film speed to match the film being scanned to a “film term” or profile. Using the normal curve dialog in SilverFast, I was able to obtain good detail and tonal representation in all the levels of this negative. Here is a scan of a shot made with a C-41 process chromogenic black-and-white film. In the Frame pane, the size of the original and the size of the image output and its resolution should be set for a final scan. You can then select whether you want to output a file within an application like Photoshop. In the lower part of the General pane you input the kind of scan, whether a positive or a negative, as well as a selection for Kodachrome, providing either an IT8 profile adjustment for Kodachrome film or an interpolated one based on the scanner’s E-6 film profile. So finally, I am happy with the result after half a lifetime.īelow is a two-pane General and Frame dialog that provides support to select the kind of output, and if used for a finished file, to select the kind of and degree of filtration or sharpening. But this and similar shots have always scanned very grainy, but the CanoScan 9000F did not reproduce the usual rough-looking image. This film was about as grainy as any ever made, and I often used it with a soft-focus lens to make portraits. At least 40 years ago I was shooting a very high-speed Anscochrome film of patterns in a lake surface with a very long lens.

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