Plustek Optic Film 7600i-Ai or 7600-SE for B&W?

[mdruziak]

Here's the link to Plustek's site and the brief description of the calibration target:

http://plustek.com/usa/products/opticfilm-series//opticfilm-7600i-se-v.s.-opticfilm-7600i-ai.html

For more info on the calibration slide, see the Lasersoft site:
http://www.silverfast.com/show/kodachrome-targets/en.html

 

[AlexanderR]

Ernest by 3rdstring, on Flickr

One of my first scans. Kodak BW+ C-41 film. Final adjustments to TIF in LR3. Lens used CV40f1.4 on R3A.

 

[DNG]

The 7400 doesn't have hardware dust and scratch removal, which doesn't work on most B&W film anyway. However, I've read that the 7400 has slightly better optical abilities (a higher "real" resolution.)

Silverfast SE doesn't do 16/bit channel TIFFs. So if you intend to do post processing in Photoshop, Lightroom, etc, then you may want to consider Silverfast Ai to get the most out of your images.

Silverfast SE Plus DOES do 24b TIFF all day long... I use the 48b>24b Color setting for all my B&W, Just set the Saturation to -100...

I have Silverfast SE Plus on a 7300.... V6.2.2r4a. last version before version V8.x