#Silverfast epson v700 mac os
#Silverfast epson v700 software

It is not immediately intuitive, but it does provide access to lots of capabilities. But lots of controls just don't seem to make any sense. The Vuescan Bible will help (google it and buy it).

#Silverfast epson v700 software

You just need to put in the time to play with it until it makes sense. Buy: LaserSoft Imaging Silverfast Ai Studio V8 Scanner Software for Epson Perfection V700 Photo / GT-X900 MFR: EP4301STUDIO8. The very slight clip on the white will find the few specular highlights in your picture, and keep the image from being too compressed in the histogram.įrank is right that you MUST select the scan are to include only image area if you use ANY of the automatic level-setting tools (even if Epson Scan doesn't tell you its applying such automation).įrom this distance, I can't help you learn Vuescan. Leave the other settings on their defaults. Order SilverFast 8 by clicking on ‘DOWNLOAD’. The new user interface and the WorkflowPilot facilitate the handling for the user.

#Silverfast epson v700 mac os

If you set Vuescan to clip the white at about 0.01% and the black at 0%, and if you output to a wide-gamut color space like ProPhoto, then it will capture the full density range of the film without blowing out highlights or jamming the entire range into one end of the histogram. Under Windows and Mac OS X, SilverFast 8 is now also available for the following scanners: Multi-Tasking, Preview Concept and scanner-specific adaption ensure an increase of technical performance. But you can get everything set up and then save your parameters to be called up next time you are scanning that particular film. Vuescan is the result of 10,000 modifications, so the user interface tends to be rather non-intuitive and tedious. I once installed Silverfast AI-highly recommended by many photographers-and could not make heads or tails of it. I have used Vuescan since about 1999, so I'm accustomed to its weirdness. Same question Silverfast.Ken, I don't know the Epson software-I never even installed it on my machine when I bought my V750. Same question Silverfast.įinally, a friend (Rick D) uses Vuescan, have you tried it, is is any better to deal with? I took a peek and could not make sense of it at all. The color palette I cannot make sense of, and always have hated curves.Īlso, how do you get Epson to stop checking the unsharp mask! And anyway to get them scanned in Adobe 1998? any way to save scan presets?įinally, a friend (Rick D) uses Vuescan, have you tried it, is is any better to deal with? I took a peek and could not make sense of it at all. I'm comfortable with the histogram and image adjustment. Just viewing preview in thumbnail view, so best to use normal preview and do a crop to block out black areas? L, I was not even cropping like I do on documents. So in the future, it's just good to have an intern do all just all of them in auto just to see them, no tediou dusting, and then do the tedious work on final picks. I was hoping not to mess with all this stuff and save that for Photoshop, but the scanner is so off sometimes, that I guess I should now start tweaking before scanning. I thought the scanner know what to do? So you laboriously do this for each and every scan? I see levels, so like Photoshop, you just play around. That is what makes home scanning so fascinating.Thanks Jon, have not been paying attention. Make you own scans, your own interpretations, give the scans your artistic voice. Once you have accepted this, you are good to go! The old Ansel Adams quote about the score and the performance is also true for color film. Even during darkroom printing all prints were interpretations. The biggest problem is that we need to accept the fact that there is no accurate or 'correct' scan that we retrieve from the scanner. The orange mask and the fact that the image is inverted are of course two complications we have to deal with, but these challenges are not as complicated as you might think. The first thing you hear is, that you cannot get accurate results due to the orange mask.

While positive film seems so much easier to scan, obviously you can see the positive image already, it seems some kind of mystery to scan print film. The main part of this section is the video tutorial that can be found below.

Now I was finally able to put together this site with lots of useful information to get started with scanning color film. Discussion in 'Digital Darkroom' started by markusmuller, Oct 20, 2009. I always wanted to write about scanning color negative film.