Jerkman
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i am using aperture apple software. i have an epson v700 scanner and a plustek 7400. the issue is what scanning software to use :silver fast se 8 , or vue scan . raw or tiff, which one work s best in aperture for printing?
f16sunshine
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I use v700 to tiff via Epson Scan (2400DPI 16 bit grayscale or 48bit color) .
Send files to external HD from Eposn Scan and then import to A3.
I don't feel 3rd party SW is needed or an improvement over Epson Scan.
Have ordered prints to 11x14 from MF scans. They look great. For 35mm I keep it to 5x7 using the V700. It's not the tits for 35mm but, good enough for preview.
Can't help with the Plustek.
Send files to external HD from Eposn Scan and then import to A3.
I don't feel 3rd party SW is needed or an improvement over Epson Scan.
Have ordered prints to 11x14 from MF scans. They look great. For 35mm I keep it to 5x7 using the V700. It's not the tits for 35mm but, good enough for preview.
Can't help with the Plustek.
dovi
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I have a similar setup with an epson scanner and Aperture.
I have not given much thought to the scanning side so I have a basic Question- why Tiff and why 2400 DPI? Also for 35mm, what is the average file size you're getting for a single exposure?
To the Original Poster- I hope you don't mind my asking the above.
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I have a similar setup with an epson scanner and Aperture.
I have not given much thought to the scanning side so I have a basic Question- why Tiff and why 2400 DPI? Also for 35mm, what is the average file size you're getting for a single exposure?
To the Original Poster- I hope you don't mind my asking the above.
Zonan
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TIFF because it doesn't throw away data when compressing/re-compressing data as jpegs do, and gives you the maximum amount of data to work with. 2400 because that is the about maximum (or maybe it's a bit more than) the scanner can really achieve. You are looking to get the maximum amount of data out of the scan, and then save it in a format which preserves the data. I don't scan 35mm on the Epson so I don't know about 35mm file sizes.