![]() I expect I’d have to pay the same price again to have both on SF9. Of course, this only allows my to run SF9 on my Plustek scanner, not on my Canon scanner. Note the “new” prices though - not sure what they’re smoking up in there in Kiel, but I want some too. So, the Archive Suite, which includes Ai Studio AND HDR Studio, costs less than half the upgrade price of Ai Studio alone. Apart from some other unspecified “improvements”.Īnd how much does it cost? Well, as ever, Lasersift is very coy about this, making you jump through all sorts of hoops to get a price. I have no idea why scanning speed itself should be faster with SAC, or why it should be only available through SAC. Also, the blurb adds, without evidence, “you too can enjoy the advantages of our scan booster with the Single Archive Command” and “75% faster with SAC”. Basically it seems to be rearranging some existing deckchairs (auto frame finding, Job Manager, VLT), and is of use only for flatbed scanners. What this does is anybody’s guess, but it claims to be a “One-click-archiving solution”. Yes, we get the obsessive Air Force reference. Awesome.Īnd last but very much not least, SAC - Single Archive Command. This is apparently a web page where I can see a list of licenses I own. The actual layout looks 100% identical to Silverfast 8, with - and here we have to recognise a serious accomplishment - even uglier icons. ![]() I regret my cynicism, but I very much doubt that any of the outstanding usability issues have been fixed. Well, from the screenshots this appears to be a touch more lipstick, only this time also available in fashionable black. I wonder what Mark Segal thinks about that? So, the headline feature is a new E-Book, written by Chief Mad Scientist, Wing Commander Karl-Heinz Zahorsky. But this update… well, let’s see what’s new: Actually, it’s chugging away now on my Mac, but only as a input provider to Negative Lab Pro. It’s a weird time of year to announce a new product, but Lasersoft are a weird company (I used to think of them as eccentric, which has a certain charm, but now they’re just weird, as in irritating). I will have a look at CaptureOne.A totally unexpected email popped up in my inbox yesterday, announcing the release of Silverfast 9. ![]() I did a comparative test which showed of that of the two it is my "Target" profile which produces the more accurate colours. Interesting that you found the preloaded Kodachrome profile gave you better results than the one generated using your IT8 target. It would nice if there was some decent documentation for Silverfast or better still a "Missing Manual" book. I admit to not being clear as to what the differences between 48 bit Color and 48 bit HDR Color are. I had been thinking of using 48>24 Color because, as I understand it, Elements can't do much with 48 bit files so I would have to convert them to 24 bit anyway but this setting will allow me to use 48 bit for anything I do within Silverfast but the output will be 24 bit. The 7600i just offers me 48>24 Color (default setting), 48 bit Color and 48 bit HDR Color (not HDRi) plus corresponding 16 bit Greyscale settings which I assume are for black and white film. I will give your workflow a try but I can't scan at 64 bit HDRi. It's automatic white balance tool usually improves the white balance from SilverFast. And here is another secret: I bought CaptureOne software because I'll probably go digital and wanted to learn how to use it, but I found out that it works great on the TIFFs generated by Studio. So I first hit the auto-adjust button that looks like a camera iris, and then bring the contrast curve back to a straight line.īut here is a little secret: I found that using the built-in icc profile for Kodachrome that comes preloaded with SilverFast usually gave better results for Kodachrome scans than my custom generated icc profile from my IT8 Kodachrome target. That is, my contrast curve is just a straight line. I usually find that I prefer no contrast applied. Then open the raw files with Studio, where you can adjust the histograms and contrast to your liking. Just scan with SilverFast Ai into 64 bit HDRi files. I sold my Nikon 9000 scanner recently, but I did have the pleasure of using it with SilverFast for a few years.
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