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[rog]

I need to purchase Silverfast 8. I bought the digitiliza from lomo and i have an epson v600. And the only way to work with it is with silverfast.

But there are three version, with considerable price differents. I scan my images manually controlled and postprocess in photoshop cs4.
Is there much differents between de basic version or the professionel version of silverfast. I know that they say you can do a lot more but i'm used to the scanning software that came with the epson (pretty basic).

If anyone is using it, please let me know your experience.

thanks,
rog

 

[ruby.monkey]

VueScan doesn't work for you? I've used it with my V700 and DigitaLIZA with great success.

 

[cabbiinc]

Why wouldn't the Epson software work with it? I admit that I don't have much experience with the Epson software (about 5 minutes total) but couldn't you set it to scan Medium Format film and just crop the results?

 

[Rogier]

Silverfast sucks. Use the the Epson software or Vuescan.

 

[joeswe]

I need to purchase Silverfast 8. I bought the digitiliza from lomo and i have an epson v600. And the only way to work with it is with silverfast.

But there are three version, with considerable price differents. I scan my images manually controlled and postprocess in photoshop cs4.
Is there much differents between de basic version or the professionel version of silverfast. I know that they say you can do a lot more but i'm used to the scanning software that came with the epson (pretty basic).

If anyone is using it, please let me know your experience.

thanks,
rog

Look at the Silverfast website. They have comparison charts which show the difference in features between the different versions. In a nutshell, SE (the very basic version) does not have Multi-Exposure, SE PLUS has Multi-Exposure and AI Studio allows color profiling your scanner with an IT8-target. Multi Exposure gives greater dynamic range and less noise, while color profiling gives more accurate colors with slide fillm. Ai Studio also allows creating own profiles for color negative films and saving them.

 

[c.poulton]

It's not that bad! (I couldn't get any decent scans from Vuescan and didn't like the interface at all) - I'm currently using SilverFast SE 8 with an Canon Canoscan 8800f (for medium format) and a Plustek OpticFilm 7500i 9for 35mm) - OK it's a bit quirky, but once you get used to it, it's fine. I don't feel the need to upgrade to any of the more advanced versions.

 

[rog]

With the epson software it says to close the top or remove the whiteplate.....no matter how i trie to scan it.
The vuescan is just not making a preview at all. Although it starts to and then the scanner gives an error, so that is not working either.

When you use the basic edition can you still adjust everything, like levels, the selection you like to scan etc. some of the basic operations. I couldnot really make that up from the website.
I should B&W and i like grain. That's the main thing i use it for.

thanks!

 

[ruby.monkey]

With the V700 one needs the sheet film guide in place before the scanner will accept that it's scanning film with the digitaLIZA, which doesn't have the necessary markings on the bottom. Is this the same for the V600?

 

[rog]

I don't think so, the v600 cannot take sheetfilm. It has a fairly small scanning window, only two strips of 135mm film wide.

 

[newsgrunt]

actually, the v700 doesn't need the sheet film guide to work with the DigitaLiza. I scanned some film last night using a pair of the 120 holders side by side and my v700 worked fine without the guide. Just set the option to 'film guide' and have at it.

 

[brbo]

... and don't cover the calibration area with your DigitaLiza.

edit: first hit on google ---> http://www.lomography.com/magazine/tipster/2011/11/07/aligning-the-digitaliza-on-the-epson-v500

 

[rog]

thanks, i will try that, would be nice if it works.
let you know

 

[rog]

It works perfectly!
Thanks brbo.