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So the LS-5000, LS-4000, LS-2000, LS-40 ( IV ), and the LS-50 ( V ) now use iSRD instead of Ice and offer Multisampling (most in Hardware) and Multiexposure !!!!Īll those scanners can Output 48 Bits now, that was restricted for the less expensive ones before when using the Nikon drivers.
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The Version that you can download now is a complete rewrite of the driver level, now we natively and directly support the most popular 35mm Nikon Scanners without having to use the Nikon drivers.
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I'm hoping that when I upgrade my iMac that Silverfast 8, which I already paid for, isn't as shoddy.The new Version 6.6.0r1 introduces much more stable Nikon support on intel and Leopard Systems.Īs you may know, Nikon did not upgrade their Drivers ( called "MAID" ) to work flawless on intel machines or with Leopard. It's like some buffer is never being cleared. Oh, and while the normal scan size on my 6x7 is about 580MB, sometimes it makes a file of 1.73GB using the same settings. Really really shoddy coding in there somewhere. Coolscan 9000ED), it will lock the entire system (hard reboot with all peripherals unplugged, and sticking the film in the scanner) if you don't turn on the external drive BEFORE you try to start the scan. Oh, and if you have Firewire external drives and the scanner is Firewire (e.g. The results, when one can get them, are great, but sheesh. It hangs on every other save to file, and messes up every 3rd scan on average (skips to the 2nd pass before completing the first). When doing 6x7 film, the old version (6.6r4a) is a DISASTER. The new Silverfast (6.6r5 and 8) uses double the RAM for any given job, so I can't use it on any format above 35mm. I'll second that ICE is a huge timesaver versus spotting at 100% with a Wacom tablet with archived film (1/2 hour or more per image, often). I do prefer the highlight mapping that Silverfast features, however.
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They didn't produce scans as noiseless as the ones the Minolta software produced.The 16X multisampling is spectacular and rivals drum scans.
Reason for bothering with it is that I tried both Vuescan and Silverfast awhile back and found their implementations of hardware Digital ICE and 16X multisampling to be wanting.
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Scanning speed is largely hardware-limited so any reasonably fast G4 or later Mac ought to work well if you have the room to dedicate a machine to scanning).
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Might also mention that this older Mac hardware is relatively cheap and stable and not prone to viruses even when you don't install all the latest upgrades. (The G3 was also one of the last Macs to have native SCSI-II, so it's worthwhile should I ever buy a drum scanner. I'll keep the B&W alive just for use as a scanning station. I still run the scanner using Minolta Scan on a G4-chipped G3 B&W Mac using Panther without issue, and under 10.4.11 now with some issues (though it won't run as a plug-in under PS CS2 anymore). That got fixed, and Tiger versions introduced, although later versions of Tiger-supported drivers broke with installing OSX updates. It's not a new issue, happened right after I bought a Konica Minolta DiMage Scan Elite 5400 with the later versions of Panther not yet being supported. I'm familiar with the non-support of driver software in later versions of OSX. Rick "thinking Vuescan is cheap enough to buy on spec as a hedge against software obsolescence" Denney
If I wanted the scan software to produce final scans, maybe I would think differently. Like you, I do my manipulations in Photoshop and Vuescan fits better for me in that workflow. I have played with Silverfast Studio which came with my Epson V750, but I found it too fiddly and went back to Vuescan. I use Vuescan with my Nikon 8000ED, and prefer it to Nikon Scan by a fair margin. I tend to do most of my adjustments in PS so I'm not sure about the manipulation of the scans in Silverfast but I have a lot of color negative films and wonder if Silverfast would be better for those color negatives? What about B&W? If Silverfast which version? Suggestions? The question is whether to shell out the big bucks for Silverfast Studio or use Vuescan (both of which are supported for Snow Leopard) for my medium format images. The Snow Leopard OS for my Mac is not supported by Nikon Scan (yet). I have a Nikon 9000ED film scanner that I'm reasonably happy with.