Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is what I have: http://www.silverfast.com/show/silverfast-ai-studio/en.html I would advise buying the Kodachrome target, too. http://www.silverfast.com/show/it8-targets/en.html <http://www.silverfast.com/show/silverfast-ai-studio/en.html>I also have the HDR studio, but if you have another light-table type program, you don't really need that. I use LR instead. When I scan, I use the multiple scan, HDR mode which scans once for shadows and once for highlights and combines them for a raw file that includes all of the information possible in the slide. There is a manual for Silverfast that you can print out and it helps considerably. Tina On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> wrote: > On May 11, 2010 at 09:39 AM -0500, James Laird wrote: > >> What would scare me away would the support issue. Film scanner are >> getting to be like Kodachrome, a thing of the past. Who know how long >> Silverfast will be around. And will they keep updating it for the >> latest OS? >> > > They seem to update their software pretty frequently. They officially > support OS X 10.6 for the Nikons for example, which is better than can be > said for Nikon itself. > > By the way, if I were hypothetically interested in Silverfast, which > version do people suggest? That's the other thing that is off putting to > me. 6 different versions with obtuse nomenclature. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com