Re: SilverFast (Good? Bad? Ugly?)

["Gerry Mosher" <gmosher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just received SilverFast AI5 with NegaFix. Haven't used it yet  (upgrade
with Polaroid SS4000)

Any news groups for SilverFast?

gerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:25 AM
Subject: RE: SilverFast (Good? Bad? Ugly?)


> The fact that it won't do 48-bit scans (except raw output to HDR) is
pretty
> much fatal to me. In a program that costs as much as hundreds of megabytes
> of MS Office, and touts itself as full-featured, this is utterly
> inexcusable.
>
> Negafix sounds like it could be a plus--I didn't upgrade, since I couldn't
> see throwing good money after bad--but I'm not sure that NikonScan doesn't
> do the same thing, since I get excellent color from my negatives with it.
>
> I used the IT8 target to calibrate SilverFast, but didn't notice any great
> improvement, over either SilverFast out of the box or NikonScan.
>
> Are there any other features or qualities that make you rave about it? I
> just don't get it.
>
> --
>
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
>
> > From: Tunney Moriarty
> >
> > I wouldn't be without it.. nor I do I believe that there is
> > software on the market that can come even close to what it can do.
>
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